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By 1901, The Mount Wilson Toll Road Co. had purchased Henninger Flats, Strain's Camp, Martin's Camp, and 640 acres (2.6 km 2) of the summit. [7] In 1903, George Ellery Hale visited Mt. Wilson and was impressed by the perfect conditions for which to set up the observatory, which would become the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory in 1904.
Mount Wilson is an unincorporated community on the border of South Annville Township and South Londonderry Township in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States. Mount Wilson is located along Pennsylvania Route 241 .
Mount Wilson is a mountain in Mohave County, Arizona, U.S. At 5,456 feet (1,663 m), it is the second highest point of the Black Mountains after Mount Perkins. [3]Mount Wilson Wilderness is a 23,900-acre protected wilderness area centered around the mountain, established in 1990 under the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act and managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mt Wilson fundamentally changed the scientific view of the Universe Hooker Telescope enclosure. The 100-inch (2.5 m) Hooker telescope located at Mount Wilson Observatory, California, was completed in 1917, and was the world's largest telescope until 1949.
Mount Wilson is a mountain located in the Spring Mountain range of southern Nevada. It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area. It is the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area.
Mount Wilson is the highest summit of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,254.1-foot (4,345 m) fourteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of San Juan National Forest , 10.6 miles (17.1 km) north by east ( bearing 12°) of the Town of Rico in Dolores County , Colorado , United States .
The observatory sits at the summit of 5,715-foot Mt. Wilson, accessible only by a serpentine stretch of Angeles Crest Highway. When George Ellery Hale established it in 1904 with funding from what ...
The CDP takes its name from Mount Wilson, a 9,315-foot (2,839 m) summit that rises to the east of the community and is part of the Wilson Creek Range. The CDP is located on Mount Wilson Road, 8 miles (13 km) east of U.S. Route 93 , along which it is 23 miles (37 km) south to Pioche and 84 miles (135 km) north to Ely .