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Technical drawing of the coude and cassegrain convex mirror mountings and cages of the Hooker telescope for Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Technical drawing of the coude and cassegrain convex mirror mountings and cages of the Hooker telescope for Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1917-01-24
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: Technical drawing, showing assembly of the coude and cassegrain convex mirror mountings and cages of the Hooker telescope, for Mount Wilson Observatory. The title box in the lower right-hand corner of teh drawing reads: "100 in. Reflecting Telescope, Assembly of Mirror Cages, Coude and Cassegrain, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory". It is dated january 23, 1917.
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
Identifier: COPC 63
28060
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1482
Subject: Technical drawings
Mirrors
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Cassegrainian telescopes
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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