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Title: Snow telescope coelostat, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1905-07-31
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: Snow telescope coelostat as seen from trestle, Mount Wilson Observatory. A canvas shield is placed over the second flat.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: COPC 231
28228
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1064
Subject: Coelostat
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Mirrors
Gearing
Tarpaulins
Observatories
Astronomical observatories
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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