{"id":10938,"date":"2014-06-17T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2014-06-17T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:13:13","slug":"lovecrafts-star-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/lovecrafts-star-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s star-chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s star-chart or &#8216;planisphere&#8217;: &#8220;The Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder&#8221;, circa 1906.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecrafts-star-chart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lovecrafts-star-chart.png?w=529\" alt=\"lovecrafts-star-chart\" width=\"529\" height=\"257\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10943\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/lstarchartcomplete.png\">6Mb PNG, complete, printable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/planisphereexhibitcradle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/planisphereexhibitcradle.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"planisphereexhibitcradle\" width=\"529\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10941\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/storagecaseandextras.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/storagecaseandextras.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"storagecaseandextras\" width=\"529\" height=\"536\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10939\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/sizeindication.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/sizeindication.jpg\" alt=\"sizeindication\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10940\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thirty years ago I bought a large planisphere from Barritt &mdash; the so-called &#8220;Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder&#8221;, with a graduated ecliptic and thumb-tacks for planets.  An accompanying booklet gave the right ascension of each planet at short intervals for about a decade ahead, so that one could simply stick a tack on the ecliptic at the right place and all be set.  Time passed, the booklet became obsolete, and I didn&#8217;t know what had become of Barritt and his firm.  For a while I used the <em>Nautical Almanack<\/em>&#8230;&#8221; (<em>Selected Letters<\/em> V, p.412)<\/p>\n<p>He was still using this with binoculars for casual star-gazing (not serious observation work) in the early 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovecraft&#8217;s star-chart or &#8216;planisphere&#8217;: &#8220;The Barritt-Serviss Star and Planet Finder&#8221;, circa 1906. 6Mb PNG, complete, printable &#8220;Thirty years ago I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/06\/17\/lovecrafts-star-chart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-historical-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}