Every Museum of Greater Los Angeles

Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles Natural History Museum

Mt. Wilson Observatory & Astronomical Museum

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Mt Wilson, CA

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Angeles National Forest, Los Angeles

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  • The Museum of Photon Technology is being developed within the 100-inch telescope dome. The tank at center is a vacuum chamber for aluminizing telescope mirrors up to forty inches.
  • Inside the historic 60-inch telescope dome, completed in 1908.
  • The A-frame Astronomical Museum is itself historic; the Snow solar telescope is visible in the mirror.
  • The sixty-foot tower of the Snow solar telescope pushes up through the trees.

Photos by Ryan Schude