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Title: Coelostat of the Snow telescope, inside shelter, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900
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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: Coelostat of the Snow telescope as seen from inside shelter, Mount Wilson Observatory. The coelostat is mounted on a wooden platform/base; a white tarpaulin provides shelter for the instrument.
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 Glass neg 5x7
Identifier: COPC 205
28202
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/553
Subject: Coelostat
Astronomical instruments
Tarpaulins
Telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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