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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.
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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Astronomical observatories in California" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Mount Wilson is at the peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, located within the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and Angeles National Forest in Los Angeles County, California. With only minor topographical prominence the peak is not naturally noticeable from a distance, although it is easily identifiable due to the large number of antennas ...
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 ...
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
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