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Big Pine
OV Radio Observatory
Crater, CA

All photo cards on this page courtesy of Rich McCutchan archives unless otherwise noted.
The photographs of the Smith and Tate family, and other early Big Pine residents, are from two personal Big Pine
photo albums in Rich's Archives.

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09/21

Owens Valley Radio Observatory Construction - 1958 (Photos courtesy Caltech Digital Archives)
Sections of the radio observatory arriving by rail in Lone Pine.	Radio telescope pedistal construction
Radio telescope pedistal construction	Radio telescope pedistal construction
Alidade assembly on the pedestal .	The tower for the second dish showing where the polar axis will be mounted
The tower for the second dish, with the declination axis for the second dish lying in front of the first dish	Declination axis
Installing the declination tube on the tower	Johnny Harriman studies the polar axis, and hour-angle drive gears, for the second dish
Dish construction	Construction of second dish
Maneuvering the dish onto its tower	Maneuvering the dish onto its tower
Maneuvering the dish onto its tower	Maneuvering the dish onto its tower
Maneuvering the dish onto its tower	Maneuvering the dish onto its tower
Maneuvering the dish onto its tower	Maneuvering the dish onto its tower
Maneuvering the dish onto its tower	Maneuvering the dish onto its tower
Dish attached to tower	Caltech Owens Valley deep space Radio Observatory
Completed Caltech Owens Valley deep space Radio Observatories
Completed Caltech Owens Valley deep space Radio Observatories

08/22

Photos and Postcards courtesy of Rich McCutchan

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