{"id":891,"date":"2013-03-02T17:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2017-05-05T06:56:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:56:11","slug":"kodaikanal-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"Kodaikanal Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_892\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kodaikanal.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-892\" class=\"wp-image-892 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kodaikanal-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Kodaikanal Observatory\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kodaikanal-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Kodaikanal.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kodaikanal Observatory, c. 1907. <br \/>Image courtesy IIA Archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think this photo demonstrates why I&#8217;ve lost interest in my current project and wish I could start working on a new one. The only caption I&#8217;ve seen attached to this image is &#8220;John and Mary Ackworth Evershed, Kodaikanal.&#8221; The Eversheds arrived at Kodaikanal Observatory in January 1907. John had (reluctantly) accepted the position as &#8220;European Assistant&#8221; to the observatory&#8217;s director, Michie Smith, arriving in India after a productive visit to the solar observatory on Mt Wilson. Not surprisingly, most of Evershed&#8217;s time at the observatory was spent installing and then using spectroheliographs to study the spectra of sunspots. He became the observatory&#8217;s director in 1911.<\/p>\n<p>All very interesting, I&#8217;m sure, but what I want to know: how can this possibly be a photo of &#8220;John and Mary Ackworth Evershed&#8221; when it includes sixteen other people, fourteen of whom are obviously not &#8220;European Assistants&#8221;? Colonial astronomy drives me crazy, it really does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think this photo demonstrates why I&#8217;ve lost interest in my current project and wish I could start working on a new one. The only caption I&#8217;ve seen attached to this image is &#8220;John and Mary Ackworth Evershed, Kodaikanal.&#8221; The Eversheds arrived at Kodaikanal Observatory in January 1907. John had (reluctantly) accepted the position as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,59,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ephemera","category-kodaikanal","category-observatories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","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=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}