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Title: Knife-edge assembly used for testing the 60-inch telescope mirror, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1969-04
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: Knife-edge assembly used for testing the 60-inch telescope mirror, Palomar Observatory.
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 4X5 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2165
30162
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2090
Subject: Astronomical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Optical instruments
Mirrors
Telescopes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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