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About Mount Wilson

HISTORY

  • Letters to the Mount Wilson Observatory are the subject of a permanent exhibition at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California. A small room is dedicated to a collection of unusual letters and theories received by the observatory circa 1915–1935. These letters were also collected in the book No One May Ever Have the Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mt. Wilson Observatory 1915–1935 (ISBN 0-9647215-0-3).
  • The historic monument came under threat during the August 2009 California wildfires.
    Mozingo, Joe (August 30, 2009). Station fire likely to hit historic Mt. Wilson observatory, fire officials say. Los Angeles Times
  • The poet Alfred Noyes was present for the "first light" of the Hooker telescope on November 2, 1917. Noyes used this night as the setting in the opening of Watchers of the Sky, the first volume in his trilogy The Torchbearers, an epic poem about the history of science. According to his account of the night, the first object viewed in the telescope was Jupiter and Noyes himself was the first to see one of the planet's moons through the telescope.
    Interwiki: cite book » title=Watchers of the Sky |last=Noyes |first=Alfred |authorlink=Alfred Noyes |year=1922 |publisher= |isbn=



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