Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1904 — Goes to Photograph the Sun. [ARTICLE]

Goes to Photograph the Sun.

Chicago, June*7. —The University of Chicago has just sent Its expedition to make observations of the sun. Professor George E. Hale, director of the Yerkes observatory, will have charge of the work on Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, Cal. His assistants will be Ferdinand Ellerman and Walter S. Adams. The Snow horizontal telescope has been taken to the mountain, and scores of photographs of the sun will be made. The work will cost $lO,000, provided by the Carnegie institution.