{"id":2047,"date":"2019-02-11T13:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2021-04-25T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T20:15:04","slug":"update-new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/update-new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE &#8211; New Geodetic Observatory Coming to UT Austin\u2019s McDonald Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_C.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2051 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_C-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_C-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_C.jpg 576w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_C-31x55.jpg 31w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_B.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2050 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_B-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_B-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_B.jpg 576w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_B-31x55.jpg 31w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_A.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2049 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_A-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_A-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_A.jpg 576w, https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/VLBI-Dish-Install_02_07_2019_A-31x55.jpg 31w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">UPDATE: On February 7, 2019, the skyline of UT&#8217;s McDonald Observatory changed significantly as contractors successfully placed the antenna dish of MGO&#8217;s first major instrument &#8212; the Very Long Based Interferometer (VLBI) radio telescope &#8212; on its pedestal. Installation of additional MGO instruments, such as the Space Geodesy Satellite Laser Ranging (SGSLR) system, will occur in the coming months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,Times,serif;\">For more information, see:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory\/\">https:\/\/www.csr.utexas.edu\/new-geodetic-observatory-coming-to-ut-austins-mcdonald-observatory\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo Credit:Stephen Hummel<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: On February 7, 2019, the skyline of UT&#8217;s McDonald Observatory changed significantly as contractors successfully placed the antenna dish of MGO&#8217;s first major instrument &#8212; the Very Long Based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2058,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utw10640.utweb.utexas.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}