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News from Mount Wilson:

2009 MWO Calendar is available for ordering

60-inch Centennial celebrated on November 12, 2008

"The Journey to Palomar" is now on PBS stations nationwide

Banner photographs by David Jurasevich.


Information Directory
Scientific Access to Telescopes is available to qualified scientists. For information regarding use of the 100-inch telescope, including fees, please contact the Observatory Director Dr. Harold McAlister.

Group tours are led by docents of the Mount Wilson Observatory Association. These tours, for which there is a modest fee, must be arranged in advance. Contact Mr. Gale Gant for more information or to schedule a tour. Tours are held in the daytime only and do not include looking through a telescope.

Public viewing through the 60-inch Telescope is available to individuals and groups. Fee and scheduling information is available here.

Requests for historic images taken at the Observatory should be directed to Jennifer Goldman of the Huntington Library in San Marino.

Film shoot access to Observatory facilities is available for appropriate production companies. Please contact Dr. Harold McAlister.

Additional contacts:

MWI Mountain Operations Office
Dave Jurasevich
Superintendent
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Mt. Wilson, CA 91023

Voice: (626) 440-9016
Fax: (626) 405-9814

MWI Business Office and Director's Office
Dr. Harold McAlister - Director
Ms. Alexandra (Sandy) Land - Business Manager
P.O. Box 1909
Atlanta, Georgia 30301-1909

Voice: (404) 413-5484
Fax: (404) 413-5481

Deliveries:
c/o CHARA, Georgia State University
One Park Place South #720
Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Mount Wilson Institute Trustees and Officers

MWI Board of Trustees:
Dr. Charles Townes, Chairman - University of California, Berkeley
Mr. Frederick Briggs - Verizon
Mr. Hugh Downs - exbtv.com
Mr. C. Robert Ferguson - Attorney at Law
Mr. Samuel D. Hale - Century Management
Dr. Luis Ho - Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Mr. Michael H. Horner - Tom Sawyer Camps
Mr. Michael Long - Premier Wireless
Dr. Harold A. McAlister - Georgia State University
Dr. Eugene N. Parker - University of Chicago
Dr. Arthur H. Vaughan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

MWI Officers:
Dr. Harold A. McAlister - Director and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Arthur H. Vaughan - Deputy Director
Mr. Samuel D. Hale - Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Donald Nicholson - Associate Deputy Director for Public Affairs
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