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  2. William Huggins - Wikipedia

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    William Huggins (1910) William Huggins was born at Cornhill, Middlesex, in 1824. In 1875, he married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of John Murray of Dublin, who also had an interest in astronomy and scientific research. [2] She encouraged her husband's photography and helped to put their research on a systematic footing. [citation needed]

  3. Timeline of telescopes, observatories, and observing technology

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    1863 – William Allen Miller and Sir William Huggins use the photographic wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic spectrogram of a star, Sirius and Capella. [ 17 ] 1872 – Henry Draper photographs a spectrum of Vega that shows absorption lines .

  4. Mount Wilson Observatory - Wikipedia

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    For the 60-inch telescope, George Ellery Hale received the 60-inch (1.5 m) mirror blank, cast by Saint-Gobain in France, in 1896 as a gift from his father, William Hale. It was a glass disk 19 cm thick and weighing 860 kg. However it was not until 1904 that Hale received funding from the Carnegie Institution to build an observatory.

  5. Hale Solar Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    The Hale Solar Laboratory is a historic astronomical observatory in Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, United States.Built in 1923, it was the laboratory of astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938), a pioneering figure in the development of the discipline of astrophysics in the United States.

  6. List of astronomical observatories - Wikipedia

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    Foothill Observatory: Los Altos Hills, California, US Ford Observatory: 1998 Ithaca, New York, US Fox Observatory: Sunrise, Florida, US Fox Park Public Observatory: 1999 Potterville, Michigan, US Francis Marion University Observatory: 1982 Florence, South Carolina, US Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory: 1968 Mount Hopkins, Arizona, US Fremont ...

  7. 'Knocking on our door': Wildfire closing in on historic ... - AOL

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    A Southern California wildfire was roaring toward the historic Mount Wilson Observatory on Tuesday as an unprecedented fire season continued to rage across much of the West Coast, officials said.

  8. Hale Telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f / 3.3 reflecting telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, US, named after astronomer George Ellery Hale. With funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1928, he orchestrated the planning, design, and construction of the observatory, but with the project ending up taking ...

  9. Why was a major reservoir empty when L.A. fires broke out? - AOL

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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for an investigation into the loss of water pressure and unavailability of water from the reservoir during the fires in Los Angeles. Why was a major reservoir ...