{"id":216,"date":"2011-07-20T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-07-20T13:50:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:50:04","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_217\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/images\/cruz-del-sur-observatory\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-217\" title=\"Cruz del Sur Observatory\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cruz-del-sur-observatory-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Cruz del Sur Observatory\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cruz-del-sur-observatory-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cruz-del-sur-observatory-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/cruz-del-sur-observatory.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cruz del Sur Observatory, Chile. Photo credit: Rodrigo Mar\u00edn Baez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wall paper shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observatoriocruzdelsur.cl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cruz del Sur Observatory<\/a> in Cerro El Peralito, near\u00a0Combarbal\u00e1, Chile. This observatory, which consists of four domes arranged to mimic the Southern Cross constellation, exists to spread the passion for astronomy in the local community. The domes pinning down the ends of the large arm of the cross house 16&#8243; Meade LX200-R-type Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. The domes anchoring the short arm of the cross house\u00a014&#8243; Meade LX200-R-type Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. Although visitors are required to book ahead and pay a nominal ticket fee, the observatory <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observatoriocruzdelsur.cl\/actividades.htm\" target=\"_blank\">welcomes guests for tours<\/a> during the day and night.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image and look to the right hand column to download the image as wallpaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wall paper shows the Cruz del Sur Observatory in Cerro El Peralito, near\u00a0Combarbal\u00e1, Chile. This observatory, which consists of four domes arranged to mimic the Southern Cross constellation, exists to spread the passion for astronomy in the local community. The domes pinning down the ends of the large arm of the cross house 16&#8243; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observatories","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}