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Grand Entry

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:52:23 +0000

Prepare for a learning experience.

This photo was taken by a Minolta SRT102 film camera with a MC Rokkor-PF 1:1.7 f=50mm lens and Vivitar 55mm Skylight (1A) filter using Kodak Portra 160 (135) film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.

Center of Attraction

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:25:05 +0000

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Inside this observatory and science museum is a treasure trove of mankind’s search for knowledge about the cosmos.

This photo was taken by a Minolta SRT102 film camera with a MC Rokkor-PF 1:1.7 f=50mm lens and Vivitar 55mm Skylight (1A) filter using Kodak Portra 160 (135) film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.

Designer Dome

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:46:22 +0000

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Ornate architecture describes the Griffith Observatory.

This photo was taken by a Minolta SRT102 film camera with a MC Minolta Celtic 1:2.8 f=28mm lens and Vivitar 55mm Skylight (1A) filter using Kodak Portra 160 (135) film, the negatives scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitalized by Photoshop.

Rotunda Murals

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:47:42 +0000

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The Griffith Observatory’s Central Rotunda greets the visitor with Hugo Ballin’s breathtaking murals celebrating classical celestial mythology.

This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Kodak Portra 800 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

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nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:50:39 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 17:23:49 +0000

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he Twenty mile wide impact crater Kepler is the most prominent feature in this picture takenby Lunar Orbiter 3 in February 1967. The robotic Lunar Orbiter program created detailed photographs of nearly all the Moon’s surface in preparation for the Apollo program

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(lunar_crater)

www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20101109-kepler.html

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nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 21:12:15 +0000

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sciencing.com/history-pendulum-4965313.html

A pendulum is an object or weight suspended from a pivot point. When a pendulum is set in motion, gravity causes a restoring force that will accelerate it toward the center point, resulting in a back and forth swinging motion. The word "pendulum" is new Latin, derived from the Latin "pendulus," which means "hanging." Pendulums were used in many historic scientific applications.

Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens built the first pendulum clock in 1656, increasing timekeeping accuracy from 15 minutes to 15 seconds per day

n 1818, Henry Kater devised the reversible Kater's pendulum to measure gravity, and it became the standard measurement for gravitational acceleration over the next century.

Hugo Ballin Murals

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 15:51:31 +0000

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Geology and Biology

An old man symbolic of geology holds a card showing mineral crystals. Through a microscope, a biologist studies life with a chicken embryo, plant, and crab below. A man symbolizing paleontology shows a saber-toothed cat skull, with a fish skeleton below.

It Started here

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 23:24:06 +0000

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The Ballin Ceiling Mural

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:02:14 +0000

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Navigation

On the left, a symbolic figure of the Wind grasps a sundial and compass. Calm is shown to the right, holding a modern sextant. The moon orbits diagrammatically around the two figures. At the top is an astrolabe, an early astronomical instrument.

Johannes Hevelius

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:48:16 +0000

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Johannes Hevelius with one of his telescopes (from Selenographia, 1647, an elaborate map of the moon). Hevelius, who lived in Danzig, Poland, built one enormous telescope 150 feet long. he also published an important star atlas. (No drawing or engraving records Galielo's telescopes, and the two of his manufacture which survive are not as powerful as the one he was using in 1610/11. Thus we do not know what this own astronomical telescope looked lime)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hevelius

No smoking

nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 01:06:25 +0000

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nobody@ipernity.com (Dinesh) — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 00:47:55 +0000

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Bench Theoretician

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 06:10:26 +0000

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Just the other day, I stumbled upon Albert Einstein sitting on a bench in the Griffith Observatory Museum.

This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using CineStill 800T film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Temple of the Cosmos

nobody@ipernity.com (Scott Holcomb) — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 18:14:40 +0000

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The Griffith Observatory is a modern version of a Temple of the Cosmos.

This photo was taken by a Kowa/SIX medium format film camera and a KOWA 1:3.5/55mm lens with a Kowa L1A ø67 filter using Cinestill 800T film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Griffith Observatory

nobody@ipernity.com (Penny Richards) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:15:33 +0000

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Herschel, Newton, Kepler, on a monument in front of Griffith Observatory.

Griffith Observatory

nobody@ipernity.com (Penny Richards) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:15:33 +0000

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Cool grillwork over windows in the lobby at Griffith Observatory.

Griffith Observatory

nobody@ipernity.com (Penny Richards) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 06:15:33 +0000

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"Cafe at the End of the Universe"--cafeteria at Griffith Observatory.