The April 8 total solar eclipse will be the last such eclipse visible from the contiguous United States until 2044.
On April 8, there will be a solar eclipse and the folks at the observatory are inviting the public to come up to the site — 5715 feet above Pasadena — to watch and learn as the spectacle take place.
The base of the150-foot solar tower telescope will also be open to see a live projection of the eclipse.Tom Meneghini, director of telescope operations at Mount Wilson, is set to oversee the event with associate Richard Bell. They’ll offer commentary as the sun and the moon put on their show.It promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes — and cosmic chance.
One of Mount Wilson’s Interferometric Array telescopes in the foreground with the 60-inch telescope in the background on August 3, 2007, which has been instrumental in the modern understanding of the universe. With a total of six telescopes at the top of Mount Wilson, including a 101-inch one and a two solar ones, many people visit the location north of Pasadena yearly, including the likes of Edwin Powell Hubble , Albert Einstein and most recently theoretical phycisist Stephen W. Hawking .
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