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Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park.It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
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 ...
Mount Stromlo Observatory: 1911 Canberra, Australia Mount Suhora Observatory: 1987 Gorce Mountains, Poland Mount Wilson Observatory: 1904 Mount Wilson, Los Angeles County, California, US Mountain Skies Observatory: 1997 Lyman, Wyoming, US Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory: 1957 Cambridge, England, UK Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory: 2012
Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy; Mount Laguna Observatory; Mount Wilson Observatory; O. Oliver Observing Station; OVRO 40 meter Telescope;
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson , a 5,710-foot (1,740-meter) peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena , northeast of Los Angeles.
Lee, a one-time bicycle shop owner who became a protégé of Los Angeles pioneer businessman Earle C. Anthony, purchased his Los Angeles radio station KHJ from Chandler in 1927. Postcard view of the W6XAO transmitter, the Los Angeles area's first television station, c. 1940. The station eventually moved to Mount Wilson as today's KCBS-TV
The first permanent mountaintop astronomical observatory was the Lick Observatory constructed from 1876 to 1887, at the modest elevation of 1,283 m (4,209 ft) atop Mount Hamilton in California. [2] The first high altitude observatory was constructed atop the 2,877 m (9,439 ft) Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees starting in 1878, with ...