{"id":186104,"date":"2024-08-06T16:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/?p=186104"},"modified":"2024-08-06T16:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:03:28","slug":"novac-public-meeting-geoff-chester-recounts-his-career-experience-at-the-us-naval-observatory-8-11-2024-730-pm-edt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/blog\/novac-public-meeting-geoff-chester-recounts-his-career-experience-at-the-us-naval-observatory-8-11-2024-730-pm-edt\/","title":{"rendered":"NOVAC Public Meeting, Geoff Chester recounts his career experience at the US Naval Observatory, 8\/11\/2024, 7:30 pm EDT"},"content":{"rendered":"NOVAC member Geoff Chester, who recently retired from The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) will talk about the mission of the USNO and his career highlights.\u00a0 The USNO\u00a0 \u00a0performs an essential scientific role for the United States, the Navy, and the Department of Defense. Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, stars, and other celestial objects; providing astronomical data; determining precise time; measuring the Earth's rotation; and maintaining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/blog\/novac-public-meeting-geoff-chester-recounts-his-career-experience-at-the-us-naval-observatory-8-11-2024-730-pm-edt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOVAC member Geoff Chester, who recently retired from The U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO) will talk about the mission of the USNO and his career highlights.\u00a0 The USNO\u00a0 \u00a0performs an essential scientific role for the United States, the Navy, and the Department of Defense. Its mission includes determining the positions and motions of the Earth, Sun,    [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zFiL-MpG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186107,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186104\/revisions\/186107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novac.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}