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You may remember our good friend  Craig Woods , the Superintendent at Mount Wilson Observatory . Craig invited us to a special Sunday potl...

This 50HP Fairbanks-Morse engine, built in 1911 and installed at historic Mt. Wilson Observatory in 1912, was for many years ...

What do this place... ...and these men... ...have to do with this? And what the heck is this, anyway?

Update 10/2/15: I heard from Ken Evans, Mt. Wilson volunteer (thank you, Ken!). He's always got great info: "Hi Petrea -  I was ...

This was my first view of the Monastery at Mt. Wilson Observatory . Compare it to this photo .  Here's how to orient yourself to ...

If you don't know how much I love the  Mt. Wilson Observatory  then you're new here. Welcome! Mt. Wilson is a muse for me. I...

Dr. Cindy Hunt, Caltech PhD and head of Social Media for the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, pushes open the door to the vault. My mo...

Here's a familiar face. Everybody knows Albert Einstein spent a good deal of time in Pasadena in the 1930's, lecturing at Caltec...

Through a dark door beneath a gleaming tower , we enter the small building that houses Mount Wilson Obervatory 's 150-Foot Solar Teles...

THIS POST UPDATED 9/8/15: Ken Evans, a 15-year volunteer at Mt. Wilson Observatory, wrote to share information about the Solar Tower:  ...