Tyrone Solar Station, Burro Mountain, NM
Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Tyrone Solar Station, Burro Mountain, New Mexico
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- There are many photos of this area in Smithsonian Insitution Archives, Record Unit 7005, Box 187, Folder: 8.
- Summary
- Outside the instrument tunnel at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Tyrone Solar Station (in use from 1938 to 1946), on Burro Mountain at Silver City, New Mexico, are solar observing instruments.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005, Box 187, Folder: 8
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. 1940
- Standard number
- SIA2011-1328 and 33550-B
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Astrophysics
- Burro Mountain, New Mexico
- Instruments
- Mountains--New Mexico
- Observing (field) stations
- Observatories
- Solar collectors
- Solar energy--Research
- Solar observing stations
- Solar Research
- Solar station
- New Mexico
- Astronomy
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Record ID
- siris_sic_5580
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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