{"id":5980,"date":"2014-10-04T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T15:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=5980"},"modified":"2014-10-05T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T13:04:46","slug":"60cm-venor-dobsonian-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/60cm-venor-dobsonian-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"60cm Venor dobsonian telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5981\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-299x224.jpg\" alt=\"60cm Venor dobsonian telescope\" width=\"299\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5981\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-299x224.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607-1023x767.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/20140927c-1607.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">60cm Venor dobsonian telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the RASC-KC designed and built 60 cm Newtonian Telescope in a Dobsonian mount.  It was great to have out and use in dark skies, for the first time in a long time, t Fall&#8217;N&#8217;Stars 2014.<\/p>\n<p>We had some fun recollimating the scope after assembly and also remove three of the circulation fans and replaced two of them.  The third will be replaced later.  They are used to help cool the extra thick primary mirror down to ambient temperature faster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the RASC-KC designed and built 60 cm Newtonian Telescope in a Dobsonian mount. It was great to have out and use in dark skies, for the first time in a long time, t Fall&#8217;N&#8217;Stars 2014. We had some fun recollimating the scope after assembly and also remove three of the circulation fans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}