Monday, August 31, 2009

On Top of Old Smoky


Mount Wilson Observatory boasts the longest recorded history of the sun of any observatory - dating from 1906, two years after its founding in 1904 by George Ellery Hale.

Click here to access the webcam on top of Mount Wilson (elevation: 5,700 feet) and see its unsettling view of the approaching fire.

There hasn't been a fire burn over Mt. Wilson for over a hundred years - today's fire threatens to do just that.

update: Mt. Wilson webcam comes and goes - be patient and try again.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I clicked on the link. WAY cool.

Bohrstein said...

The Mount Wilson observatory web cam is DOWN.

There is an update posted: The Mount Wilson webserver has gone down, most likely due to a backfire infiltration of a pull box containing telephone lines that bring us our T1 internet service. The will be no more updates from the Towercam, the last one being upoaded at 13:49:06.

Last night, I stole this picture, before going to bed.

Love the colors! Hate the circumstances, unfortunately.

Anonymous said...

Great pic! Thanks for sharing it.

Terrible circumstances indeed.

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

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