{"id":46212,"date":"2021-03-24T05:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T02:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=46212"},"modified":"2023-12-20T11:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:48:57","slug":"ladd-observatory-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/ladd-observatory-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladd Observatory, 1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ladd-1890-obs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/ladd-1890-obs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ladd Observatory, Providence, in a key architects&#8217; drawing of summer 1890. The year of Lovecraft&#8217;s birth. It&#8217;s from a very poor Google Books scan, with fine details in the sky blown out and most of the small penmanship unreadable, so is not ideal. But it&#8217;s the best available. This is what was started with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/obscrap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/obscrap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"358\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft knew the Ladd from summer 1903, aged 13, and on Halloween of that year noted that the telescope was haunted by a &#8216;colour out of space&#8217; where there should be no colour&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The telescope is a 12 inch equatorial, but does not perform in the manner that a glass of its size should. Chromatic aberration is the principal defect. Every lunar crater and every bright object is surrounded by a violet halo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ladd Observatory, Providence, in a key architects&#8217; drawing of summer 1890. The year of Lovecraft&#8217;s birth. It&#8217;s from a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/ladd-observatory-1890\/\">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-46212","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\/46212","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=46212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62601,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions\/62601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}