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Title: Coelostat and shed of horizontal telescope, perhaps at Mount Wilson
Date Created and/or Issued: 1900-05
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 and shed of horizontal telescope at Yerkes Observatory eclipse near Wadesboro, North Carolina. This telescope later became the first solar telescope on Mount Wilson. Photo may be at Mount Wilson in 1903-04. The shed sits within an area of trees.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 969
28966
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1204
Subject: Coelostat
Sheds
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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