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Title
Scientists and equipment at observation site for the Mount Wilson Observatory solar eclipse expedition to Connecticut, 1925
Creator
Pettit, Edison, 1889-1962
Date Created and/or Issued
1925-01
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
Scientists and equipment, set up at observation site for Mount Wilson Observatory solar eclipse expedition to Connecticut, 1925. Photograph taken by Edison Pettit. Some of the instruments appear to be mounted on wooden frames. The unidentified scientsts stand amid the instruments outside; the trees are bare and snow is on the ground.
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 263
28260
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1532
Subject
Scientists
Astronomers
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Astronomical instruments
Trees
Snow
Pettit, Edison, 1889-1962
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Connecticut
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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