{"id":601547,"date":"2026-05-24T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601547\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:54:10","slug":"first-year-puts-grizedale-observatory-on-stargazing-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601547\/","title":{"rendered":"First year &#8216;puts Grizedale Observatory on stargazing map&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An observatory&#8217;s first year of operation has &#8220;put it on the map with stargazers&#8221;, bosses say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Grizedale Observatory, at Ambleside, Cumbria, opened last May with the aim of giving north-west England a facility to match those elsewhere in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Along with its every day offering of telescopes and a planetarium, it has staged a dark skies festival and a number of other events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Executive director Gary Fildes described its setting within a Lake District forest as providing an ideal spot from which to enjoy &#8220;the irresistible sight of the Milky Way and galaxies light years away&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An observatory&#8217;s first year of operation has &#8220;put it on the map with stargazers&#8221;, bosses say. Grizedale Observatory,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}