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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: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
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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