{"id":82,"date":"2011-05-11T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2011-05-12T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T19:47:57","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_83\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mark1construction2_640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-83\" title=\"Construction of Mark 1 Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mark1construction2_640x480-300x228.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mark1construction2_640x480-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Mark1construction2_640x480.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-83\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction of Mark I Telescope. Photo credit: Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper is a photo taken during the construction of the 76-meter Mark I (Lovell) Telescope at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jb.man.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jodrell Bank<\/a>. \u00a0Designed by Bernard Lovell and completed in 1957, the Mark I was designed for mobility. Lovell had been using a transit telescope, a 66-meter stationary dish pointed at the overhead sky, in his search for cosmic rays. \u00a0While the transit instrument was a suitable beginning, Lovell realized fairly quickly that his work was limited by an inability to re-direct the telescope&#8217;s attention to other parts of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>The early construction photos are pretty stunning&#8212;the photographer(s) did a good job of capturing the complexity of the steelwork needed to support the dish, not to mention the intricacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk\/multimedia\/images\/Mark1construction3.html\" target=\"_blank\">the scaffolding used by the construction workers<\/a>. \u00a0Several alterations have been made to the instrument since its completion: \u00a0the railroad tracks on which it rotates have been replaced; the support structure has been shored up numerous times; it was given a new reflector in 1970-71 that significantly increased its functionality. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk\/multimedia\/images\/lovell-upgrade.html\" target=\"_blank\">dish was resurfaced<\/a> as recently as 2000-2003.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in viewing the Mark I(a)\/Lovell telescope in person, check out the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodrellbank.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre<\/a> online (there is no public access to the research labs at Jodrell Bank Observatory, but you can take a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jb.man.ac.uk\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">web tour<\/a>). If you&#8217;re curious as to what the Lovell is observing right this moment, you can see a live update on th<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk\/live\/\" target=\"_blank\">e Jodrell Bank Telescope Status page<\/a>. \u00a0You can even follow the telescope on twitter (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/LovellTelescope\">@LovellTelescope<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>One last note: \u00a0if you want to see a truly impressive grant application, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jb.man.ac.uk\/aboutus\/lovell\/bluebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Blue Book<\/a>, Lovell&#8217;s research and funding proposal submitted to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in 1951. Would that everyone could write such a clear explanation of his or her work and its broader impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s wallpaper is a photo taken during the construction of the 76-meter Mark I (Lovell) Telescope at Jodrell Bank. \u00a0Designed by Bernard Lovell and completed in 1957, the Mark I was designed for mobility. Lovell had been using a transit telescope, a 66-meter stationary dish pointed at the overhead sky, in his search for cosmic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-telescopes","category-wallpaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}