{"id":508,"date":"2017-07-12T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=508"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T02:45:56","slug":"observatory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/programs\/observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"cs-content\" class=\"cs-content\"><div id=\"x-section-1\" class=\"x-section\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px 0px 45px; background-color: hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0.2);\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><h1  class=\"h-custom-headline cs-ta-right h1 accent\" ><span>Observatory<\/span><\/h1><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-1\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><div class=\"x-text x-content e508-e7 me4-0\">The Heights is fortunate to have this valuable resource, we are currently working in this space to determine future directions. Further information to come.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"x-section-2\" class=\"x-section bg-image parallax\" style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px; background-image: url(https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/space.jpg); background-color: transparent;\" data-x-element=\"section\" data-x-params=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;parallax&quot;:true}\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-container max width\" style=\"margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;\" ><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-2-3\" style=\"padding: 0px 20px 50px; background-color:hsla(0, 0%, 75%, 0.52);\" ><h4  class=\"h-custom-headline h4\" style=\"color: hsl(48, 100%, 50%);\"><span>The Heights Observatory is a purpose built facility consisting of two buildings. The Papaelia Observatory is a traditional domed observatory housing a 14\" F10 Meade LX200 GPS ACF Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.<\/span><\/h4><hr  class=\"x-gap\" style=\"margin: 50px 0 0 0;\"><div id=\"\" class=\"x-text\" style=\"\" ><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">The Ingham rooms are a flat top retractable roof observatory housing a superior quality 12.5\" Ritchey\u2013Chr\u00e9tien Cassegrain telescope from Optical Guidance Systems on a Losmandy HGM 200 mount. A small classroom is adjacent to the viewing area. The Observatory also uses a 16\" Meade Light-Bridge Dobsonian, a 10\" GSO Dobsonian, and 80mm Celestron NextSTAR GT GOTO scope, as well as binoculars, and a QHY8 cooled CCD camera and Canon 40D DSLR camera for astronomical imaging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div  class=\"x-column x-sm x-1-3\" style=\"padding: 0px;\" ><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"x-img x-img-thumbnail\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_6417.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"x-img x-img-thumbnail\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DSC_0544.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"x-img x-img-thumbnail\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_6401.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"x-img x-img-thumbnail\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Observatory.jpg\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ObservatoryThe Heights is fortunate to have this valuable resource, we are currently working in this space to determine future directions. Further information to come.The Heights Observatory is a purpose built facility consisting of two buildings. The Papaelia Observatory is a traditional domed observatory housing a 14&#8243; F10 Meade LX200 GPS ACF Schmidt Cassegrain telescope.The Ingham rooms are a flat top &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/programs\/observatory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":131,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-blank-4.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6192,"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/508\/revisions\/6192"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}