{"id":6,"date":"2007-11-17T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2010-02-03T04:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:26:26","slug":"object-movie-hooker-100-inch-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/object-movie-hooker-100-inch-telescope.html","title":{"rendered":"Object Movie: Hooker 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--title=\"Hooker Telescope Object Movie\" class=\"floatbox\" data-fb-options=\"width:100% height:100% shadowType:none roundCorners:none outerBorder:0 preloadAll:true infoPos:tl scrolling:no controlPos:tr overlayOpacity:80 group:wilson\"--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/gallery\/2007-11-14-telescope-object.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/images\/thumbs\/2007-11-14-telescope-object.jpg\" alt=\"Object Movie: Hooker 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; font-size: 9px;\"><em>(Click the thumbnail image above to open the full-size object movie in a new window.)<\/em><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hooker 100-inch telescope<br \/>\nMount Wilson Observatory, California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the first glimpse of our PictureBubbles tour of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, out in the mountains north of Los Angeles. Unlike most of our other work, this is an &#8220;object movie.&#8221; Rather than pivoting around where the viewer stands, like most spherical panoramas, this image allows you to drag across, left to right, and rotate about the focal point. In this case, that focal point is this massive telescope, finished somewhere around 1917.<\/p>\n<p>Making this was quite a lot of fun. Rather than walk around the entire installation at set intervals, Carel was able to set up the tripod in one position while Arthur Vaughan (Deputy Director of the Observatory) and I marked off the floor in 5\u00b0 intervals. The entire domed turret revolves around the telescope, allowing us to create an image that would be otherwise impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Click the thumbnail image above to open the full-size object movie in a new window.) Hooker 100-inch telescope Mount Wilson Observatory, California Here&#8217;s the first glimpse of our PictureBubbles tour of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, out in the mountains north of Los Angeles. Unlike most of our other work, this is an &#8220;object movie.&#8221; Rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,31,6,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.picturebubbles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}