{"id":870,"date":"2013-02-06T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=870"},"modified":"2013-02-06T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:12:57","slug":"wallpaper-wednesday-peach-mountain-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Wallpaper Wednesday (Peach Mountain Observatory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_871\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/peach-mountain-observatory-hr.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-871\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-871 \" alt=\"Peach Mountain Observatory. Image credit: James Rotz, Michigan Engineering Communications &amp; Marketing\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/peach-mountain-observatory-hr-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/peach-mountain-observatory-hr-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/peach-mountain-observatory-hr-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peach Mountain Observatory. Image credit: James Rotz, Michigan Engineering Communications &amp; Marketing<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As a consolation prize to Michigan for their loss to the Now-Number-One-Ranked Hoosiers (in both polls!), today&#8217;s post features the University of Michigan 26-meter Radio Telescope at Peach Mountain Observatory. Built in 1958, this dish supplanted an 8.54-meter radio telescope that had been built just three years earlier. If you zoom in with Google Maps (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/lNbFw\" target=\"_blank\">here, I&#8217;ve already zoomed for you<\/a>), you can see the smaller dish at the south of the observatory&#8217;s cleared property, with the large dish at the north.<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting thing I discovered while trying to ferret out primary sources documenting the construction of the radio telescope was a stack of technical papers from the 1970s related to the <a href=\"http:\/\/heasarc.nasa.gov\/docs\/heasarc\/missions\/ogo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Orbiting Geophysical Observatory<\/a> (OGO) and <a href=\"http:\/\/heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/docs\/heasarc\/missions\/imp6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interplanetary Monitoring Platform<\/a> (IMP-6). For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19760070155_1976070155.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Data from the University of Michigan Experiment Aboard IMP-6, 1971-74<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19760070156_1976070156.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">IMP-6 Solar Radio Burst Analysis Final Scientific Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19740079171_1974079171.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Data User&#8217;s Notes: OGO-III Experiment Number 18 &#8220;Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19700001843_1970001843.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Dynamic Spectra of 4-2 MHz Solar Burts: Results from Orbiting Geophysical Observatory III<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ntrs.nasa.gov\/archive\/nasa\/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov\/19750011042_1975011042.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">OGO-V Radio Burst Analysis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I love that a search for construction documents can lead to random readings on low frequency solar bursts and orbiting observatories.<\/p>\n<p>Right click on the image above to download it or go to Michigan Engineering&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/michigan-engineering\/sets\/72157630559720836\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peach Mountain Observatory set<\/a> on flickr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a consolation prize to Michigan for their loss to the Now-Number-One-Ranked Hoosiers (in both polls!), today&#8217;s post features the University of Michigan 26-meter Radio Telescope at Peach Mountain Observatory. Built in 1958, this dish supplanted an 8.54-meter radio telescope that had been built just three years earlier. If you zoom in with Google Maps [&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-870","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\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}