{"id":9636,"date":"2012-03-24T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/the-giant-magellan-telescope\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:58:55","slug":"the-giant-magellan-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/the-giant-magellan-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Magellan Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Still-GMT-S21-medium.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Still-GMT-S21-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5723430351349895778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Wow, seven 28 foot mirrors! They just started blasting away the top of a mountain in Chile to make room for this magnificent &#8216;scope. More details here: <\/span><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gmto.org\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.gmto.org\/index.html <\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For those of you who are looking, they have some job openings (link at the bottom of their site). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, seven 28 foot mirrors! They just started blasting away the top of a mountain in Chile to make room for this magnificent &#8216;scope. More details here: http:\/\/www.gmto.org\/index.html For those of you who are looking, they have some job openings (link at the bottom of their site). Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2012\/03\/24\/the-giant-magellan-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Giant Magellan Telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,158,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy","category-chile","category-telescopes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9638,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions\/9638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}