MWO founder George Ellery Hale atop Mt. Wilson, 1904 Huntington Library

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Mount Wilson Observatory is operated by the Mount Wilson Institute under an agreement with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The Observatory occupies lands belonging to the USDA Forest Service set aside under a long-term leasehold agreement between CIW and the USDA Forest Service. The Observatory subscribes to the USDA non-discrimination policy as expressed here.

Banner photographs by David Jurasevich
The June 5th Transit of Venus - Observatory Superintendent Dave Jurasevich, a noted astro-imager, photographed the transit from Mount Wilson. See his beautiful results here. Filmmaker Todd Mason, co-creater with Robin Mason of PBS television's "Journey to Palomar", documented the transit activites on Mount Wilson in this YouTube video. As a final treat, the webcast from the mountain hosted by Astronomers Without Borders founder and president Mike Simmons is linked here.