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100 & 60-inch Telescope Public Ticket "HyperNight" (Aug 7)

08/07/2021 07:30 PM PT

Admission

  • $195.00

Location

Mount WIlson Observatory
Mount Wilson, CA 91023
United States of America

Summary

Mount Wilson's Public Ticket Nights make telescope viewing available to visitors not associated with a group. Our 60-inch and 100-inch Hyper Nights are a special session: visitors will be able to use BOTH telescopes on the same night.
This special viewing session is limited to 36 observers (broken into two groups, switching midway in the evening), running from 7:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m., and tickets are available to individuals (no more than four tickets may be purchased by one individual).

Description

Mount Wilson's 60-inch & 100-inch Telescopes

Mount Wilson's Public Ticket Nights make the remarkable experience of telescope viewing available to visitors not associated with a large group.  This remarkable observing experience has been made even more special, as on our Hyper Nights, visitors will be able to use BOTH telescopes on the same night--the 2 largest telescopes in the world dedicated exclusively to the public.
Create a life-long memory by observing astronomical objects with BOTH the historic Mount Wilson 60-inch and 100-inch Telescopes. The first group, limited to a maximum of 18 people, will observe through the 60-inch telescope, while the second group of 18 (max) observes through the 100-inch telescope. About the midpoint of the session, observers will be escorted to the other dome to continue observing.

 
60-inch Telescope: This historic telescope saw first light in 1908 and set in motion a quest for ever larger reflecting telescopes that continues today. During the WWI years, the American astronomer Harlow Shapley used the telescope to show that the Sun was located well away from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus extending the Copernican Revolution by demonstrating that the Sun has no special place in the Universe.
 
100-inch Telescope: After seeing first light in 1917, the telescope would be the world's largest until 1949 when the Palomar 200-inch came on line. The world-heritage class telescope was famously used by Edwin Hubble during the early 1920's to show that the Universe is vast in size compared with the then prevailing view. Hubble followed up this revolutionary discovery by quantifying the expansion of the Universe, thereby launching modern cosmology. Other than Galileo's first instruments, no other telescope has had a similar impact on human understanding of our place in the Universe.
 
  • Each group on a telescope is limited to 18 people, so there will be plenty of time for everyone to look at a significant number of targets.
  • This event allows up to 4 tickets to be purchased by one individual.  Tickets may not be sold or otherwise transferred to another person except by gift. 
  • The session runs from 7:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. 
  • For more viewing session details, please visit our website at:  Mount Wilson Public Ticket Nights
 
Come enjoy an incredible night of astronomy on the telescopes that revolutionized modern astronomy!