{"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>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"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",654,366,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",150,84,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",300,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",654,366,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",654,366,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",654,366,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/restauro-merz-2025.png",654,366,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<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 of the Brera Inaf Roberto Della Ceca &#8211; Article by our Stefano Sandrelli with interview by our Laura Barbalini \u2013 Read the full story on Media INAF (in italian) The Merz refractor of the Inaf of Brera, before, during and after the restoration. Credits: Laura&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/category\/news-en\/scientific-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_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}]}}