{"id":235,"date":"2011-08-03T15:34:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2011-08-03T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:40:56","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_236\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scenicreflections.com\/media\/412186\/Onsala_Space_Observatory_Wallpaper\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-236   \" title=\"Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Westerbork_Wallpaper_12hyu-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Westerbork_Wallpaper_12hyu-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Westerbork_Wallpaper_12hyu.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s lovely wallpaper (click on image to download) shows the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astron.nl\/radio-observatory\/public\/public-0\" target=\"_blank\">Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope<\/a> (WSRT), at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON),\u00a0not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chalmers.se\/rss\/oso-en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Onsala Space Observatory<\/a>, as the linked page would have you believe. The Westerbork telescope works on the same interferometry principles that determine the design and use of other mobile arrays, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/index.php\/learn\/vlavc\" target=\"_blank\">Very Large Array<\/a> (VLA) at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a>, the One-Mile Telescope at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrao.cam.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory<\/a> (MRAO), and the <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=122\" target=\"_blank\">Australia Telescope Compact Array<\/a> at the Paul Wild Observatory. Although you can&#8217;t really tell from this photo, one thing that sets this array apart from most is that the telescopes have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equatorial_mount\" target=\"_blank\">equatorial<\/a>, rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Altazimuth_mount\" target=\"_blank\">alt-azimuth<\/a>, mounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s lovely wallpaper (click on image to download) shows the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON),\u00a0not the Onsala Space Observatory, as the linked page would have you believe. The Westerbork telescope works on the same interferometry principles that determine the design and use of other mobile arrays, such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observatories","category-telescopes","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}