{"id":153,"date":"2025-08-18T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/?page_id=153"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:18:57","slug":"drax-getting-involved","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/?page_id=153","title":{"rendered":"Drax: Getting Involved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most Saturdays, various MAG members get together on the top of the hill at the Spaceguard Centre and work on the telescope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would love to have any assistance you can offer. Volunteers have done everything from bricklaying, painting walls, designing electronic controls, writing software, cleaning the carpets, laying the carpets, wiring up sockets, precision mechanical engineering, carpentry &#8230; the list is endless!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take a look at our facebook page to see the sort of things we have been doing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/26550057298\/?locale=en_GB\">: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/26550057298\/?locale=en_GB<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155\" style=\"width:433px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_20250419_105758586-edited-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ken finishing up painting the walls of the control room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you think you could come help out, be it for just an hour as a one off or become one of our regular weekly volunteers you would be most welcome. We provide teas and coffees and chocolate cake as well so  you will be well looked after!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do email us at: mail@marchesastro.uk to make sure we are going to be up on the hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Saturdays, various MAG members get together on the top of the hill at the Spaceguard Centre and work on the telescope. We would love to have any assistance you can offer. Volunteers have done everything from bricklaying, painting walls, designing electronic controls, writing software, cleaning the carpets, laying the carpets, wiring up sockets, precision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-153","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}