{"id":84,"date":"2025-03-03T22:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T22:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2025-03-04T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T11:50:44","slug":"drax","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"Drax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drax is a 24&#8243; Schmidt Camera. Housed in the Rob Bridgeland Dome at the Spaceguard Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Drax_dome.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Rob Bridgeland Dome<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally build by Grubb Parsons for Cambridge University in mid 1950&#8217;s, Drax was donated to Spaceguard UK in 2009. Since then we at MAG have been constructing the dome to house it and refurbishing the telescope itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drax is the largest Optical Telescope in Wales and the 15th largest in the UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drax is a 24&#8243; Schmidt Camera. Housed in the Rob Bridgeland Dome at the Spaceguard Centre. Originally build by Grubb Parsons for Cambridge University in mid 1950&#8217;s, Drax was donated to Spaceguard UK in 2009. Since then we at MAG have been constructing the dome to house it and refurbishing the telescope itself. Drax is [&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-84","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marchesastro.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}