Francis Pease at the cassegrain focus of the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. The telescope's tube is vertical. Pease stands on an elevating platform in front of the telescope. The interior walls of the observatory are seen in the background. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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