Image / Lower section of the Hooker reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Lower section of the Hooker reflecting telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1916
1917
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: Lower section of the Hooker reflecting telescope placed in the fork, 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 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 45
28042
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1366
Subject: Reflecting telescopes
Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Interiors
Astronomical instruments
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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