After 20 months of operation, the great 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain yielded its most significant discovery. Palomar’s Dr. Milton La Salle Humason, a diffident, self-effacing expert ...
More times than she can remember, Jean Mueller stood on the catwalk of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory scanning the night sky, trying to time the exact moment to close the dome.
Last time Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was in the neighborhood was 48,000 B.C., and the world has a pair of telescopes at Palomar Mountain to thank for discovering it buzzing nearby this time around.
The 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain is ailing. Installed last January, it has thus far taken no scientifically valuable photographs of the stars. Dr. Ira S. Bowen, director of the ...
When I was in grade school I was fascinated by the world’s largest telescope: the 200-inch-diameter Hale Reflector on Palomar Mountain near San Diego. What a behemoth! At the time I enjoyed using a ...
For the past three years, astronomers at the California Institute of Technology’s Palomar Observatory in Southern California have been using the High Performance Wireless Research and Education ...
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