This is one of my favorite places, seeing it from my porch as long as I can remember.
Love the place, love the mountain road.

Click on: Mount Wilson Virtual Tour (http://www.mtwilson.edu/vir/index.php)



Q: People ask why is Mt Wilson even around today?
A: With steadier air above it than any North American location, Mount Wilson is an ideal location for a field of study known as interferometery (http://www.mtwilson.edu/sci/int/interferometry.php). In an interferometer, the light from an astronomical object is collected by two or more telescopes and then recombined at a central location.

http://www.cadillacforum.com/upfiles/2893/AEAF8FC0067F446CBD92AE8EFAE8238D.jpg




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Mt Wilson FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Isn't Mount Wilson affected by the lights of the cities below? It doesn't really get dark there anymore, does it? (http://www.mtwilson.edu/faq/pollution.php)
Are those old telescopes still useful? Isn't there new technology that makes newer telescopes better? (http://www.mtwilson.edu/faq/age.php)
Are the telescope domes cooled inside? (http://www.mtwilson.edu/faq/cooling.php)
I heard the observatory closed down several years ago. Is anything happening there anymore? (http://www.mtwilson.edu/faq/changeover.php)
How do they look through the telescope? Can I look? (http://www.mtwilson.edu/faq/looking.php)These topics are clickable links .. use them.

For pictures of the sky: Astrophotography (http://www.astrophys-assist.com/astrophot/)


http://www.astrophys-assist.com/astrophot/hb5.jpg

Mount Wilson cam

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm