{"id":1371,"date":"2013-01-09T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/?page_id=1371"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:20:46","slug":"stephens-observatory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/stephens-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephens Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/files\/2013\/01\/scope5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1372 size-medium\" title=\"scope5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/files\/2013\/01\/scope5-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/files\/2013\/01\/scope5-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/files\/2013\/01\/scope5-332x500.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/files\/2013\/01\/scope5.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>The Stephens observatory, located on the roof of Carnegie, houses a 12-inch Newtonian reflecting telescope, built by Roscoe G. Stephens of Kennebunk, Maine. Stephens gifted the telescope to the college in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Stephens spent two years grinding the primary mirror by hand. The telescope has an excellent optical quality.\u00a0 The original placement of the telescope was in a small building where Page Hall now stands. After an addition was built onto Carnegie Science Hall, the telescope and a new dome were placed on the roof in order to view the skies without obstruction. The observatory dome is electrically driven, and the telescope has a tracking system designed and built by a senior thesis student.<\/p>\n<p>There are also several portable telescopes available for student use, including an eight-inch Celestron, a six-inch Meade starfinder, and a Coronado Solarmax II 60. In addition, the astronomy lab provides eight three-inch reflecting scopes with accessory photometers. For more information about the telescopes, please contact Cole Hastings (<a href=\"mailto:nhasting@bates.edu\">nhasting@bates.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stephens observatory, located on the roof of Carnegie, houses a 12-inch&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":360,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1371","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3010,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1371\/revisions\/3010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/physics-astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}