{"id":7062,"date":"2025-06-12T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:08:04","slug":"in-brera-celestial-maps-and-terrestrial-maps-media-inaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/in-brera-celestial-maps-and-terrestrial-maps-media-inaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Telescope that saw \u201cMartians\u201d restored &#8211; Media INAF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Purchased in 1862 by the Kingdom of Italy, the eight-inch Merz refractor used by Giovanni Schiaparelli for his historic observations of Mars has been completely restored. &#8220;Now it will be necessary to intervene on the dome: the windows no longer close properly and this risks compromising the conservation of the telescope itself&#8221;, says the director of the Brera Inaf Roberto Della Ceca &#8211; Article by our Stefano Sandrelli with interview by our Laura Barbalini \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2025\/06\/12\/restauro-merz-brera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story on Media INAF (in italian)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png\" alt=\"Il rifrattore Merz dell\u2019Inaf di Brera, prima, durante e dopo il restauro. Crediti: Laura Barbalini\/Inaf Brera\" class=\"wp-image-7064\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Merz refractor of the Inaf of Brera, before, during and after the restoration. <br>Credits: Laura Barbalini\/Inaf Brera<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purchased in 1862 by the Kingdom of Italy, the eight-inch Merz refractor used by Giovanni Schiaparelli for his historic observations of Mars has been completely restored. &#8220;Now it will be necessary to intervene on the dome: the windows no longer close properly and this risks compromising the conservation of the telescope itself&#8221;, says the director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[563,564,566,565],"class_list":["post-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-agnese-mandrino-2","tag-cristina-zangelmi-2","tag-stellar-maps","tag-terrestrial-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7069,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}