{"id":921,"date":"2010-04-09T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:25:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:25:12","slug":"spring-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/spring-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we  are waiting for the ground to warm up and continue the gardening that we started in the last couple of weeks of really really warm weather (28 deg C!), there are a few projects scheduled for the near future:<br \/>\n*  Reflooring the StarlightCascade Observatory<br \/>\n* The <a href=\"http:\/\/radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\">Radio Jove Kit<\/a> is a large dual dipole antenna structure along with a decameter radio receiver connected to a computer with datalogging done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiosky.com\/skypipeishere.html\">Skypipe software<\/a>.  It will involve setting up <a href=\"http:\/\/radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov\/education\/educ\/radio\/jrec-ant\/material\/anmanual.pdf\">the antenna<\/a> and building the <a href=\"http:\/\/radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov\/education\/educ\/radio\/jrec-ant\/material\/rcmanual.pdf\">radio receiver from component parts<\/a>.<br \/>\n* reworking the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingston.rasc.ca\/Secure\/roboscope\/\">roboscope project<\/a> to get it up and operational.<br \/>\n* repairing a 2&#8243; focuser with teflon inserts<br \/>\n* reworking an offset bolt mount with the coronado H-alpha solar telescope and mount.<br \/>\nStay tuned for detailed postings on these projects!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are waiting for the ground to warm up and continue the gardening that we started in the last couple of weeks of really really warm weather (28 deg C!), there are a few projects scheduled for the near future: * Reflooring the StarlightCascade Observatory * The Radio Jove Kit is a large dual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}