This is the 445th entry to this blog.

This is the 445th entry to this blog.
The observatory on top of Mt. Wilson has escaped the fury of the largest wildfire since 1897. Imagine lugging the 100 inch mirror up steep trails where no roads existed. Using mules to do the heavy lifting. Then astronomer Edwin Hubble used the telescope to discover the existence of far off galaxies. Previous to Hubble it was believed that everything in the universe was what we see as our galaxy. Nothing existed outside it. Now we know better. And imagine if all that equiment had been lost to the fire.
The largest of seven fires has consumed 145000 acres of mountainous terrain. Holding off the fire literally at the homeowners fence line, these guys in 100 degree heat are saving our world. It reminds me of Dick De Boer. Bless his heart.
Why does the ash in the air from the fires turn the sun orange?
A large orange sun reminds me that we're all on this flight together.

Dick