{"id":20,"date":"2010-03-08T11:26:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2019-04-05T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T18:05:29","slug":"boston-university-lowell-partnership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/facilities\/boston-university-lowell-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Lowell Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment1215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment1215\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/iar\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC6335.jpg\"><img src=\"\/iar\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC6335-400x636.jpg\" alt=\"Perkins 72&quot; telescope\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC6335-400x636.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/files\/2016\/06\/DSC6335-644x1024.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment1215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Perkins 72&#8243; telescope<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSince August 1, 1998 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/\">Boston University<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lowell.edu\/\">Lowell Observatory<\/a> have jointly operated the 72-inch Perkins telescope. The telescope is located on Anderson Mesa, near Flagstaff, AZ. BU and Lowell Observatory astronomers share the use of the Perkins telescope equally. In addition, a total of 60 nights per year on the Perkins telescope is available to outside users through the NSF PREST program. Members of BU&#8217;s Institute for Astrophysical Research (IAR) have recently built two new instruments for use on the Perkins telescope: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/prism\/\">PRISM<\/a>, which provides optical imaging, polarimetry, and spectroscopy, and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/clemens\/mimir\/\">Mimir<\/a>, which provides near-IR imaging, polarimetry, and spectroscopy. <\/p>\n<p><strong>RESOURCES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lowell.edu\/rsch\/telsked\/index.html\">Anderson Mesa Schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jumar.lowell.edu\/confluence\/display\/DCTIC\/DCT+Information+Center+Home\">DCT Schedule<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pictures:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/facilities\/lowell-images\/\">Lowell Observatory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since August 1, 1998 Boston University and Lowell Observatory have jointly operated the 72-inch Perkins telescope. The telescope is located on Anderson Mesa, near Flagstaff, AZ. BU and Lowell Observatory astronomers share the use of the Perkins telescope equally. In addition, a total of 60 nights per year on the Perkins telescope is available to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"featured_media":0,"parent":1058,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/2089"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}