Image / Panel display entitled "The Sun's neighbors", at Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Panel display entitled "The Sun's neighbors", at Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930
1931
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1940
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: Panel display entitled "The Sun's neighbors", at Mount Wilson Observatory. The display is mounted within a wooden frame on a low wooden pedestal. An explanatory label is mounted at the foot of the display panel. The title of the panel, at the top, reads "The Sun's neighbors / stars known to be within 65 light-years of the Sun / One light year = 6 x 10 (superscript 12) miles, data complete to 1934".
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 film neg
Identifier: COPC 1576
29573
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/686
Subject: Museum exhibits
Solar system
Sun
Stars
Picture frames and framing
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomy
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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