{"id":1771,"date":"2015-02-13T10:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?page_id=1771"},"modified":"2021-02-26T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:02:53","slug":"public","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/public\/","title":{"rendered":"JCMT Public Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/aro.as.arizona.edu\/docs\/what_is_submillimeter.htm\">submillimetre wavelength region<\/a> (think far-infrared-microwave) of the spectrum.\u00a0 The JCMT is used to study our Solar System, interstellar and circumstellar dust and gas, and distant galaxies. It is situated at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/19%C2%B049%2722.2%22N+155%C2%B028%2737.0%22W\/@19.822842,-155.47695,4485m\/data=%213m1%211e3%214m2%213m1%211s0x0:0x0?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19\u00b049\u201922.2\u2033N 155\u00b028\u201937.0\u2033W<\/a> on the slopes of Maunakea, Hawaii, at an altitude of 4092m. The JCMT is run by the non-profit organization the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\">East Asian Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Due to staffing constraints, we are unable to give summit tours to visitors who request them. For those who are visiting the island and who want to <a href=\"https:\/\/maunakeaobservatories.org\/\">learn more about the telescopes on Maunakea<\/a> we recommend a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imiloahawaii.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Imiloa Astronomy Center<\/a> in Hilo or a visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/info\/vis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maunakea Visitor Information Station<\/a>. For general information from all the observatories, career opportunities, events, news, and more, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/maunakeaobservatories.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maunakea Observatories home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Starlapse: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/120759427?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"830\" height=\"467\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">&#8220;Starlapse: The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope&#8221; created by JCMT Telescope System Specialist William Montgomerie, available at <a title=\"JCMT Starlapse\" href=\"www.vimeo.com\/williammontgomerie\/jcmtstarlapse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.vimeo.com\/williammontgomerie\/jcmtstarlapse<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) is the largest astronomical telescope in the world designed specifically to operate in the submillimetre wavelength region (think far-infrared-microwave) of the spectrum.\u00a0 The JCMT is used to study our Solar System, interstellar and circumstellar dust and gas, and distant galaxies. It is situated at\u00a0\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/public\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":83,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1771\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}