{"id":33,"date":"2011-04-02T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2011-05-03T01:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T01:35:35","slug":"reflecting-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting Telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmm.ac.uk\/explore\/astronomy-and-time\/astronomy-facts\/instruments\/telescopes\" target=\"_blank\">Reflecting telescopes<\/a> use\u00a0mirrors to gather light.\u00a0\u00a0A large concave mirror (the &#8220;objective&#8221; mirror) collects the light as it enters the tube of the telescope. \u00a0It then reflects the collected light onto a smaller mirror, which in turn reflects it into the eyepiece for magnification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflecting telescopes use\u00a0mirrors to gather light.\u00a0\u00a0A large concave mirror (the &#8220;objective&#8221; mirror) collects the light as it enters the tube of the telescope. \u00a0It then reflects the collected light onto a smaller mirror, which in turn reflects it into the eyepiece for magnification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-telescopes","category-terminology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}