{"id":6,"date":"2015-03-11T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/new\/tco\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-02-05T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T15:54:02","slug":"tco","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to North Carolina&#8217;s Three College Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"boxes\">\n<h3><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216\" src=\"http:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/tco_aerial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/tco_aerial.jpg 902w, https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/03\/tco_aerial-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>We open this telescope for public and for group observing on certain nights each month.&nbsp; Please see our &#8220;Public Nights&#8221; webpage.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Three College Observatory, located at a dark-sky location in central North Carolina, contains a 0.81-meter reflecting telescope, one of the largest in the southeastern United States.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory opened in 1981 and is used for astronomical research, instruction of North Carolina college students, and sky observing by interested persons in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The Observatory is operated jointly by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncg.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncat.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">North Carolina A &amp; T State University,<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guilford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guilford College.<\/a> All three universities are located in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greensboro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greensboro, North Carolina.<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>&nbsp;<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We open this telescope for public and for group observing on certain nights each month.&nbsp; Please see our &#8220;Public Nights&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-one-column.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/physics.uncg.edu\/tco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}