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	Mount Wilson (California) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mount Wilson is one of the more prominent peaks in the San Gabriel Mountains, part of the Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California.
		It is the location of the Mount Wilson Observatory and has become the astronomical center of Southern California with a 60 inch (1524 mm) and a 100 inch (2540 mm) telescopes, and a 60 foot (18 m) and a 150 foot (46 m) solar towers.
		Mount Wilson is also referred to as a metro-media center for its relay broadcasting of radio and television frequencies for the Greater Los Angeles Area.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Wilson_(California) (1207 words)

	National Park Service: Astronomy and Astrophysics (Mount Wilson Observatory)
		Mount Wilson Observatory, placed in operation in 1904, was the second (after Lick) of the great astronomical research observatories to be established in the Far West.
		The decision of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, to build the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles was made at the urging of Dr. George Ellery Hale, the organizer and director of the Yerkes observatory at William's Bay, Wisconsin.
		Michelson mounted a rotating octagonal mirror on Mount Wilson, and used it to reflect a beam of light to a flat mirror mounted on nearby Mount Baldy.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/butowsky5/astro4d.htm (3535 words)

	HPS Summit Signatures - Mount Wilson
		Wilson unsuccessfully drilled for oil, but was a leading figure in coaxing the "Big Four" to extend their Southern Pacific R.R. through Los Angeles rather than around it (1876).
		This summit is named for Wilson because he is credited with creating the first modern trail into the front range of the San Gabriel's (1864).
		Wilson sought to convert plentiful stands of sugar pine and cedar into fences and wine barrels.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /hps/signatures/12g.htm (772 words)

	Mount Wilson
		Mount Wilson was named after Benjamin (Don Benito) Wilson, who built a burro trail up the mountain in 1864.
		Wilson was one of the best known of the American settlers in Southern California, and was the first Mayor of Los Angeles under U.S. rule.
		Because of the clear air, level land, and close proximity to civilization, the summit of Mount Wilson was an ideal spot to build an astronomical observatory.
	angeles.sierraclub.org /hps/guides/12g.htm (961 words)

	SPACE TODAY ONLINE - Space Today Online - The Millennium - A Space and Astronomy Timeline
		Mount Wilson is a 5,710-ft.-high mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains of southwest California northeast of Pasadena.
		George Ritchey uses the Mount Wilson 60-inch telescope in California to locate faint light from erupting novae stars in spiral nebulae, suggesting that they were at extreme distances away from Earth.
		Mount Palomar is a 6,126-ft.-high peak in southern California northeast of San Diego.
	www.spacetoday.org /History/MillenniumTimeline/20thCenturyEarly.html (1995 words)

	Bill Keel's Telescope Tourism - Mount Wilson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In fact, Mount Wilson and Palomar had a singular status in the public eye for the six decades that one of the two was the largest traditional telescope on Earth, achieving a level of recognition and an aura of prestige that are unlikely to be equalled in today's more dispersed scientific community.
		Note the battleship construction and classic English yoke mounting, which precludes pointing near the pole in the interest of stability (like the IRTF and UKIRT mounts from the 1970s).
		Of course, having been founded by George Ellery Hale, solar work was long a key part of Mount Wilson operations, with the most noteworthy instrument being the 150-foot solar tower telescope.
	www.astr.ua.edu /keel/telescopes/wilson.html (378 words)

	Mount Wilson Observatory
		Historic Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical research facility located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California.
		Located on the summit of Mount Wilson above Pasadena at an altitude of 5715 feet (1742 meters), the observatory is visible from much of the Los Angeles area.
		Walking tours of the observatory are led by docents provided by the Mount Wilson Observatory Association at 1 PM on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays from the first weekend of April through the last weekend of November, weather permitting.
	www.mtwilson.edu /vis/index.php (767 words)

	Mount Wilson Observatory
		Mount Wilson ushered in 20th century astronomy and defined the field for much of the 20th century.
		As Mount Wilson Observatory begins its second century we take a look back at the first 100 years of one of the most productive scientific institutions in history.
		Guest institutions operating facilities on the Observatory grounds include: the University of California, Berkeley; Georgia State University; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the University of Southern California.
	www.mtwilson.edu (398 words)

	Wilson Mount - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Wilson, Mount, peak in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California.
		Mount Wilson Observatory, major astronomical observatory in southern California.
		It is located on Mount Wilson, 32 km (20 mi) north-east of Los...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wilson_Mount.html (120 words)

	Bureau of Land Management Arizona - Mount Wilson Wilderness Area
		The 23,900-acre Mount Wilson Wilderness is located in Mohave County, Arizona, approximately 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada and 60 miles northwest of Kingman, Arizona.
		The wilderness encompasses eight miles of Wilson Ridge and its' summit, the 5,445-foot high Mount Wilson.
		The terrain in Mount Wilson Wilderness is extremely rugged.
	www.blm.gov /az/rec/mtwilson.htm (373 words)

	Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938)
		An American astronomer who founded the Yerkes Observatory (1897) and served as its first director (1897-1905), Mount Wilson Observatory (1904), and Palomar Observatory (1934), and made important contributions to solar astronomy.
		He suffered seriously from headaches, insomnia, and frequent episodes of metal illness, but the often-repeated story that he believed he was often visited by an elf who advised him on technical matters is a myth stemming from an misunderstanding by one of his biographers.
		His last major contribution to science was to instigate and obtained funding (from the Rockefeller Foundation) for the observatory on Mount Palomar and its great 200-inch telescope.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/H/HaleGE.html (596 words)

	Letters To The Mount Wilson Observatory
		The Mount Wilson Observatory lies a short distance north east of Pasadena, California at an altitude of 5,704 feet above the sea in the range of mountains known as The Sierra Madre.
		Hussey of the Lick Observatory, Dr. Hale soon realized the stellar as well as solar observation potential of Mount Wilson, and by 1908 the 60 inch reflector, the largest actively used telescope in existence, was routinely probing the interstellar depths of the California night sky.
		As early as 1911, the astronomers at Mount Wilson began receiving letters from people all around the world, people from all walks of life, educated as well as uneducated.
	www.mjt.org /exhibits/letters/let_int.htm (642 words)

	CIW - Academic Catalog - Observatories
		The historic reflectors on Mount Wilson—the 60-inch, completed in 1909, and the 100-inch, completed in 1918—were in their day the world's largest.
		And it was at this telescope, in the dark skies during wartime flouts, that Walter Baade made the observations that led him to the concept of stellar populations that revolutionized astronomy in the early 1950s.
		Fed by the f/11 Gregorian configuration, with an integral ADC and field corrector mounted at the tertiary mirror, the transmitting, all-spherical collimator produces a well corrected, unvignetted field of 24 arc-min in diameter, and slightly vignetted field of 30 arc-sec in diameter.
	www.carnegieinstitution.org /Academic_Catalog_Revision/observatories.html (2267 words)

	THE TELESCOPES INEDUCATION PROGRAMAT THE MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Observing sessions on TIE instruments are conducted by volunteers at the Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO), located in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California.
		Near the end of its stay at Mount Wilson, the instrument became a learning tool and was regularly used by graduate students from Caltech.
		First, a new and permanent home for the telescope had to found: MWI provided the present location of the telescope on Mount Wilson, which is, in fact, the telescope's old residence at MWO, and reconditioned the observatory dome that now houses the telescope.
	www.bisque.com /thesky/tom/tie-2.htm (2392 words)

	Palomar Mountain articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It is the site of the Palomar Observatory, operated by the California Institute of Technology.
		Mount Wilson Observatory MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY [Mount Wilson Observatory] astronomical observatory located in California on Mt. Wilson, near Pasadena.
		Wilson Observatory was founded in 1904 by George E. Hale.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/09781.html (192 words)

	100_years
		The major activities on Mount Wilson during the summer of 1904 were the building of the "Monastery" residence hall and the moving of the Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope from Yerkes Observatory.
		Mount Wilson Observatory founder George Ellery Hale spent most of the month of October, 1904, in New York City and Washington, D.C., talking to officials of the Carnegie Institution of Washington about funding for the Mount Wilson Observatory.
		In Mount Wilson Observatory's early days, Humason was first a mule-driver, then the Observtory's janitor, before he became a night assistant and photographer on the 60-inch and 100-inch telescopes.
	www.mwoa.org /100years.html (9156 words)

	Mount Wilson Observatory on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It's a mountaintop experience for tourists, geologists at Mount St. Helens.
		MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY [Mount Wilson Observatory] astronomical observatory located in California on Mt. Wilson, near Pasadena.
		The observatory, along with the Palomar Observatory (see under Palomar Mountain), was formerly part of the Hale Observatories, which were jointly administered by the California Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MtW1ilson.asp (485 words)

	Carnegie Observatories - General Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Hale, inventor of the spectroheliograph, discoverer of solar magnetism, and one of the founders of modern astrophysics, was determined to push beyond the descriptive astronomy of earlier generations to understand the internal physics of the Sun and the stars.
		In pursuit of this goal, stellar telescopes soon followed the initial complement of solar telescopes on Mount Wilson: first the 60-inch, then the 100-inch Hooker telescope, each the largest in the world at the time of its construction.
		Title was given to the California Institute of Technology, which joined with Carnegie to form the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, a partnership that lasted until 1980.
	www.ociw.edu /ociw/about (1094 words)

	Pasadena Audubon Society--Mt. Wilson Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		April 5, 1999 (Here is) a list of the birds i've seen on mt. wilson over the years and the time of the year and the abundance for people who are interested...also i will put down a few other places i've seen the birds, but not the time of year or abundance...
		california towhee (yr, sporadic) also upper tujunga creek 65.
		lawrence's goldfinch (sp,su, sporadic) those are the mt. wilson birds other birds i've seen around the mountains, but not on mt.
	www.pasadenaaudubon.org /mtwilsonbirds.html (672 words)

	Remote Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Founded in 1993 by the Mount Wilson Institute, this initiative encourages educational facilities across the country to use telescopes.
		Then the telescope was moved to Mount Wilson as a training facility for Caltech graduate students.
		Robert Jastrow, director of the Mount Wilson Institute, learned of the telescope and acquired it from Caltech for this novel remote-observing project.
	www.bisque.com /thesky/tom/tie/tie.htm (1669 words)

	Rim Trail via Mount Wilson loop
		Climb the Mount Wilson fire road, passing Henniger Flats at mile 2.7, The trail head to Idlehour trail at mile 3.4, The Trail head to Winter Creek at mile 7.6 with connections to the Mount Wilson Trail & Chantry Flats.
		You reach Mount Wilson in about 10 miles with an elevation gain of 4300 feet.
		Mileage correction From Mount Wilson to Chantry Flats, it is 10 miles.
	www.mtbr.com /trails/California-L.A.Area/RimTrailviaMountWilsonloop.html (1286 words)

	Telescopes In Education (TIE) - History of Telescopes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Many notable organizations are responsible for making automation of the 24" telescope a success: Mount Wilson Institute reconditioned the Observatory dome and provided the current location of the 24" telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, California.
		The full width half maximum of the point spread function (PSF) is very nearly the same as the radius of its first dark ring, so these two measures of resolution are essentially equivalent.
		A 6" f/15 refractor telescope mounted on the 24" telescope has a diffraction limited resolution of approximately.75 arcseconds for planetary imaging.
	www.telescopesineducation.com /history.html (544 words)

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		In terms of the number and size of its individual telescopes, its ability to operate at visible and near infrared wavelengths, and its longest baselines of 330 meters, the CHARA Array is arguably the most powerful instrument of its kind in the world.
		This October 2000 aerial photo of Mount Wilson, California, shows the facilities of the CHARA Array intermingled with the existing facilities of historic Mount Wilson Observatory.
		This facility is permitting GSU faculty, staff and students to participate in observing activities at the Array on Mt. Wilson, enabling the remote control of all CHARA facilities from across the country.
	www.chara.gsu.edu /CHARA/array.html (1066 words)

	Carter and Burgess Industry Info - Focus
		MOUNTAINTOP TERRAIN, seismic zone 4, strong winds and inclement weather conditions were all successfully accommodated in the structural design of this television transmission station in Mount Wilson.
		The three-story concrete frame is designed to support a 360-foot-tall triangular-shaped transmission tower atop Mount Wilson in California.
		In accordance with hillside seismic ordinances, the tower is anchored into the mountain by three-to six-foot-diameter concrete piers placed to a depth of 60 feet.
	www.c-b.com /industryinfo/focus/structuralDesign/index.asp?p=7 (220 words)

	Mother's Day Flower Delivery Mount Wilson CA California \|Order Mount Wilson Flowers Online \| Online Florist \| Flower ...
		Mount Wilson, CA California flower delivery is a service provided by Wesley Berry Flowers since 1946.
		Send Mount Wilson, CA California florist greetings to any city or state with a Mount Wilson local florist.
		Mount Wilson Thanksgiving flowers, and Mount Wilson Christmas flowers sent near or far.
	www.800wesleys.com /Mount_Wilson_California.html (1229 words)

	Mount Wilson Observatory
		which were jointly administered by the California Institute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution.
		In 1986 the Carnegie Institution transferred the observatory's management to the newly formed Mount Wilson Institute.
		Hale Observatories - Hale Observatories: see Mount Wilson Observatory; Palomar Mountain.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0834283.html (335 words)

	Carnegie Observatories' Academic Catalog, 1998-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The first of the Carnegie observatories was on Mount Wilson, California.
		The historic reflectors on Mount Wilson - the 60-inch, completed in 1909, and the 100-inch, completed in 1918 - were in turn the world's largest.
		And it was at this telescope, in the dark skies during wartime flouts, that Walter Baade made the observations that led him to the concept of stellar populations that revolutionized astronomy forty years ago.
	www.ociw.edu /ociw/library/ac_cat_98.html (2147 words)

	Southern California Outings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		From here the trail is 7.5 miles to the top of the most famous peak in the San Gabriel Mountains: Mount Wilson.
		The shade is welcome because Southern California's famous "June Gloom" is nowhere to be seen on this warm morning.
		From this angle it obscures Mount Wilson, which is behind it.
	english.glendale.cc.ca.us /mwtrail061502.html (363 words)

	Adventure on California's Mount Wilson - Associated Content
		There was a cool breeze coming down from the peak of Mt. Wilson.
		Local maps of Mt. Wilson show six different trails but there are many more than that.
		After the first mile of hiking the sweat is starting to pour out of me. It's pretty steep to start with but the Southern California warmth keeps me very red.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/9444/hiking_mount_wilson.html (560 words)

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