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Mount Wilson observatory - Hooker Telescope

author: Serge Brunier/Novapix

reference: o-omw05-00002

Image Size 300 DPI: 34 * 24 cm

The 100 inch Hooker telescope on the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles. The 2.5 m reflector telescope was the largest in the world from its completion in 1917 until the 200-inch Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory was built in 1948. Updated with new technologies and detectors it is still in used for research.

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1917 - 2015 - ASTRONOMY - CALIFORNIA - COSMOLOGY - DOME - HOOKER - LOS ANGELES - MOUNT WILSON - OBSERVATORY - TELESCOPE - USA -