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William C. Miller, on floor, looking through guidescope of 48-inch Schmidt telescope camera

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Title: William C. Miller, on floor, looking through guidescope of 48-inch Schmidt telescope camera
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: William C. Miller, lying on floor, looking through the guidescope of the 48-inch Schmidt telescope camera, Palomar Observatory. The interior walls of the observatory dome are visible surrounding the telescope.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 4X5 B/W print
Identifier: COPC 2639
30636
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/767
Subject: Miller, William C., 1910-1981
Astronomical photography
Photographers
Astronomers
Schmidt telescope
Cameras
Observatory domes
Interiors
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical instruments
Palomar Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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