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Cassegrain cage being attached to the telescope tube, 100-inch Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Cassegrain cage being attached to the telescope tube, 100-inch Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925
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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: Cassegrain cage being attached to the Hooker 100-inch telescope telescope tube; workman is standing on Newtonian platform. Mount Wilson Observatory. Two men are visible in the photograph, as is the hook and cable used in attaching the cage.
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 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 598
28595
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/897
Subject: Cassegrainian telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Hoisting machinery
Construction workers--United States
Scientists
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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