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Attaching cameras to the 50-foot interferometer mount in front of Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena

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Title: Attaching cameras to the 50-foot interferometer mount in front of Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena
Date Created and/or Issued: 1923-08-04
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: Attaching the eclipse cameras onto the 50-foot interferometer mount at Mount Wilson Observatory's machine shop, Pasadena, for use at the 1923 Pt. Loma eclipse. Two (2) unidentified men are seen within the steel structure, attaching a camera to the mount. The brick machine shop is behind them.
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 269
28266
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1324
Subject: Interferometers
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Cameras
Machine shops
Brickwork
Buildings--California--Pasadena--Photographs
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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