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Title: Declination gear, motor and wiring for the 60-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969-07-16
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: Closeup of the new declination gear, motor and wiring during the 60-inch telescope improvements, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior walls of the observatory dome are visible in the background.
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 5X7 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 346
28343
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2116
Subject: Gearing
Motors
Wire
Telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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