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



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. In an interferometer, the light from an astronomical object is collected by two or more telescopes and then recombined at a central location.






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Mt Wilson FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions [ul][*]Isn't Mount Wilson affected by the lights of the cities below? It doesn't really get dark there anymore, does it?[*][*]Are those old telescopes still useful? Isn't there new technology that makes newer telescopes better?[*][*]Are the telescope domes cooled inside?[*][*]I heard the observatory closed down several years ago. Is anything happening there anymore?[*][*]How do they look through the telescope? Can I look?[/ul]These topics are clickable links .. use them.

For pictures of the sky: Astrophotography

 

Mount Wilson cam

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