{"id":10414,"date":"2021-09-27T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/?page_id=10414"},"modified":"2026-02-05T10:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:49:28","slug":"pto-partnership-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/home\/pto-partnership-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"PTO Partnership Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are seeking university- or college-level partners in the use of the 1.8m (72&#8243;) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pto\/\"><strong>Perkins Telescope Observatory<\/strong><\/a> (PTO), including the facility instruments Mimir and PRISM.<\/p>\n<p>Partnerships may be short-term, long-term, or permanent and may be of any size up to 49% of the use of the PTO (roughly 165 nights per year).<\/p>\n<p>Partners may be interested in hands-on teaching\/academic opportunities, pure research access, instrument development and hosting, or any mix of these and other potential uses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking university- or college-level partners in the use of the 1.8m (72&#8243;) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pto\/\"><strong>Perkins Telescope Observatory<\/strong><\/a> (PTO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7810,"featured_media":10452,"parent":3,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/landing.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10414\/revisions\/11929"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/astronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}