Seth Barnes Nicholson
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Seth Barnes Nicholson was an American astronomer. He worked at the Lick observatory in California, and is known for discovering several moons of Jupiter in the 20th century.
Seth B. Nicholson sits at his spectroscope
Mount Wilson Observatory
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The Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a 5,710-foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pa
Seth Barnes Nicholson
…discovered Jovian moon Pasiphaë, he discovered a new one, Sinope, whose orbit he computed for his Ph.D. thesis in 1915. He spent his entire career at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he discovered three more Jovian moons: Lysithea and Carme in 1938, and Ananke in 1951. While at the Palomar Observatory in 1957, he discovered…
Looking down on the top of Mount Wilson, including the historic 100" Hooker telescope (center), the 60" telescope (center left), and the CHARA array
At the base of the 150-foot Solar Tower
Top of the Solar tower containing the mirrors
The 60-inch (1.5 m) telescope at Mt. Wilson.