Eight decades of astronomical seeing measurements at Mount Wilson Observatory

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Volumn 112, Issue 777, 2000, Pages 1496-1501

  Teare, Scott W ^a,b   Thompson, Laird A ^a   Gino, M Colleen ^c   Palmer, Kirk A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Mount Wilson Institute   (United States)

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EID: 0034347603     PISSN: 00046280     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317701     Document Type: Article

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