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Title
20-foot Michelson interferometer beam on the Hooker Telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued
1920-08-09
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
20-foot Michelson interferometer beam on the Hooker telescope tube, showing mirrors 12 feet apart, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior walls of the observatory dome are seen 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
Identifier
COPC 67
28064
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1495
Subject
Interferometers
Optical instruments
Spectrum analysis--Instruments
Astronomical instruments
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Walls
Interiors
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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