{"id":2,"date":"2017-09-05T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T20:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T20:27:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h3>FAQ &#8211; Is AMO available for public observation?<\/h3>\n<p>Unfortunately, no, AMO is our private home and the telescope is designed for research using digital imagery only.\u00a0 There is no way to view objects directly through an eyepiece.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_2121-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Meet the Team<\/h3>\n<p>Ajai and Jackie Sehgal founded AMO in 1999 when they visited and fell in love with the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. \u00a0One of the darkest places with clear skies in North America, Anarchist Mountain is the ideal place to do astronomy and enjoy the outdoors. AMO is not open to the public.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/Ajai-portrait-8d45abd2c52d35d1cd0c460fa6720f5c-.jpg\" alt=\"Smiling man in front of industrial lights.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1342\" width=\"1098\" title=\"Smiling man in front of industrial lights.\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<h4>Ajai Sehgal<\/h4><p><em>Founder<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/bb-plugin\/cache\/jackie-portrait-e67346ca3703cd3f6d18361d7dd53cd6-.jpg\" alt=\"Woman standing in a vineyard, smiling.\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1780\" width=\"1172\" title=\"Woman standing in a vineyard, smiling.\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<h4>Jackie Sehgal<\/h4><p><em>Co-Founder<\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAQ &#8211; Is AMO available for public observation? Unfortunately, no, AMO is our private home and the telescope is designed for research using digital imagery only.\u00a0 There is no way to view objects directly through an eyepiece. Meet the Team Ajai and Jackie Sehgal founded AMO in 1999 when they visited and fell in love with the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. \u00a0One of the darkest places with clear skies in North America, Anarchist Mountain is the ideal place to do astronomy and enjoy the outdoors. AMO is not open to the public. Ajai Sehgal Founder Jackie Sehgal Co-Founder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sehgal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}