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- Gondor Calls For Aid!
Actually it’s just the last light of the setting sun reflecting off of a structure (the observatory?) atop Mt. Wilson. Also, you can see the sign on the Wilshire Grand tower is seriously bright, even from this far away.
- Smoke rises from Mt. Wilson
Smoke rises from Mt. Wilson above Los Angeles on Tuesday around noon. The wildfire has threatened the observatory and critical communications towers. Today it’s too hazy to see anything but the barest suggestion of the downtown skyline, much less the mountains behind it. Not that it looked quite this clear even on Tuesday – I […]
- Mt. Wilson Fire Status (Sep 1 2009)
Mt Wilson still intact for now! Status, Towercam. Image from Mt. Wilson Observatory Towercam at 12:06 pm. Observatory website still up, but towercam very slow. Mt. Wilson Towercam showing lots of smoke: 12:21 was the last image I could get. Definitely cooler today, but humidity & smoke since the wind changed make it feel worse […]
- Touring the Mt. Wilson Observatory in 1992
With the observatory threatened by the Station Fire, I dug out my photos from a tour my family took 17 years before.