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From the Mount Wilson Observatory, Mt. Wilson, California.
Elevation: 5,700 ft., Location: N 34.224 - W 118.058
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Zoomed view of San Gabriel Valley and area east of the LA river channel.
Mt. Harvard antenna farm in the foreground - city of Long Beach at the coast.
Catalina Island can also be seen as the low mountain range in the far background.

Solar observer comment posted on February 24, 2007 at 10:53 P.S.T.
Observatory weather: clear; winds calm; 40 degrees. Scattered Patches of icy snow.


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Erdman Video Systems
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