{"id":1723,"date":"2009-09-18T13:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2009-09-18T13:51:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T17:51:31","slug":"galileoscope-constructed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1723","title":{"rendered":"Galileoscope constructed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a frustrating week in some ways, so I took an hour off to look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/003088.html\">Galileoscope package that arrived a few days ago<\/a>. Could a non-science person who is only moderately handy put a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galileoscope.org\">$20 telescope with supposedly great optical features<\/a> together?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/iyRDjHYGcyzC35o3LPckSQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCM2f67m8moqZOQ&amp;feat=embedwebsite\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_uu1dCmkr9Jw\/SrO5eo50xnI\/AAAAAAAAAP4\/Z4a8o6-sTdI\/s144\/DSCF9018.JPG\" height=\"153\" width=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess he could. And then he pointed it at a neighbor&#8217;s tree 150m away, held a point-and-shoot digital camera up to the eyepiece, and pressed on the shutter as gently as he could:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/vhwzopypEFoFYxm2tiKHjw?authkey=Gv1sRgCM2f67m8moqZOQ&#038;feat=embedwebsite\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_uu1dCmkr9Jw\/SrO-Wwl9jeI\/AAAAAAAAAP8\/1mVG-bLxobA\/s144\/Leaves%20through%20Galileoscope.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Squirrel privacy be gone! Now let&#8217;s see if I can persuade either of my children to look at the stars through this tonight&#8230; if we don&#8217;t have thunderstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a frustrating week in some ways, so I took an hour off to look at the Galileoscope package that arrived a few days ago. Could a non-science person who is only moderately handy put a $20 telescope with supposedly great optical features together? I guess he could. And then he pointed it at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-rN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}