{"id":149,"date":"2019-07-31T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site45.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/07\/31\/quito-astronomical-observatory-museum\/"},"modified":"2020-06-16T11:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T11:13:20","slug":"quito-astronomical-observatory-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/2019\/07\/31\/quito-astronomical-observatory-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Quito Astronomical Observatory Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_124\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/46\/files\/sites\/46\/2019\/07\/Quito-Astronomical-Observatory-Museum.jpg\" alt=\"Quito Astronomical Observatory Museum\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/46\/files\/sites\/46\/2019\/07\/Quito-Astronomical-Observatory-Museum.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/46\/files\/sites\/46\/2019\/07\/Quito-Astronomical-Observatory-Museum-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/46\/files\/sites\/46\/2019\/07\/Quito-Astronomical-Observatory-Museum-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/46\/files\/sites\/46\/2019\/07\/Quito-Astronomical-Observatory-Museum-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quito Astronomical Observatory Museum<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Quito Astronomical Observatory Museum (Av. Gran Colombia y 10 de Agosto \u2013 Parque La Alameda, Quito) \u2013<\/strong> founded in 1873, this museum is a major attraction for students, scientists and tourists \u2013 providing a vivid history of the various scientific instruments that were used by early astronomers and scientists. The Observatory\u2019s main attraction is the Merz equatorial telescope, made in Germany and specifically designed for the Quito sky. This telescope was installed in 1875, has the same operating system of the modern telescopes and has not stopped working since the date on which the observatory dome opened. Besides the astronomical relics the observatory saved, highlights its architecture which is inspired in the design of the observatory of Bonn, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>A practical reason for the existence of this site is because Ecuador is located in a strategic geographical position (where solar-physics studies can be performed year-round, providing data for the scientific community working to understand Sun-Earth interactions). Admission: US$2.00 (adult), US$1 (students &amp; seniors), US$.50 cents (children). Hours: 10:00 am \u2013 5:00 pm (Tuesday \u2013 Sunday).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quito Astronomical Observatory Museum (Av. Gran Colombia y 10 de Agosto \u2013 Parque La Alameda, Quito) \u2013 founded in 1873, this museum is a major attraction for students, scientists and tourists \u2013 providing a vivid history of the various scientific instruments that were used by early astronomers and scientists. The Observatory\u2019s main attraction is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecuador","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.ecuador-vip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}