{"id":134986,"date":"2022-01-31T05:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/renovating-the-20%e2%80%b3-grubb-parsons-telescope-at-glasgow-university"},"modified":"2022-01-31T05:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:23:19","slug":"renovating-the-20%e2%80%b3-grubb-parsons-telescope-at-glasgow-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/renovating-the-20%e2%80%b3-grubb-parsons-telescope-at-glasgow-university","title":{"rendered":"Renovating the 20\u2033 Grubb Parsons Telescope at Glasgow University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ji5hM9xnpO4\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/ji5hM9xnpO4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fri, Feb 4 at 11:30 AM PST.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Talk by Prof Giles Hammond, University of Glasgow. Join us in person at the Augustine United Church or online via our YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will describe work that has been undertaken to renovate a 20 Grubb \u2013 Parsons telescope at University of Glasgow. I will begin with a brief history of the company, charting some of the telescope this company built for international observatories. I will then describe the Glasgow 20, which had a sister telescope in Edinburgh. The renovation required a complete rebuild of the RA and Dec clock drive, in addition to re-aluminising the mirrors. I will finish with some images\/observations from the instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/ji5hM9xnpO4 Fri, Feb 4 at 11:30 AM PST. Talk by Prof Giles Hammond, University of Glasgow. Join us in person at the Augustine United Church or online via our YouTube channel. In this talk I will describe work that has been undertaken to renovate a 20 Grubb \u2013 Parsons telescope at University of Glasgow. I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}