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Palomar Observatory - Home of 200" Hale Telescope - Formerly the World's Largest - Travels With Phil

Palomar Observatory is the home of the 200" Hale Telescope. For almost three decades it was the largest optical telescope in the world. - Travels with Phil copyrighted by Phil Konstantin - Per Wikipedia: Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in San Diego County, California, United States, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observatory is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Yale University, and the National Optical Observatories of China. The observatory operates several telescopes, including the 200-inch (5.1 m) Hale Telescope, the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin Telescope (dedicated to the Zwicky Transient Facility, ZTF), the Palomar 60-inch (1.5 m) Telescope, and the 30 cm (12 in) Gattini-IR telescope. Decommissioned instruments include the Palomar Testbed Interferometer and the first telescopes at the observatory, an 18-inch (46 cm) Schmidt camera from 1936. The 200-inch telescope is named after astronomer and telescope builder George Ellery Hale. It was built by Caltech with a $6 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, using a Pyrex blank manufactured by Corning Glass Works under the direction of George McCauley. Dr. J.A. Anderson was the initial project manager, assigned in the early 1930s. The telescope (the largest in the world at that time) saw first light January 26, 1949 targeting NGC 2261. The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was the first astronomer to use the telescope. The 200-inch telescope was the largest telescope in the world from 1949 until 1975 - - - - Links: Virtual Tour - https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palom... FAQ - https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palom... - - - - Photo Credits: My Own Palomar Observatory-California Institute of Technology - - - - Video Credits: My Own - my video made for KFMB with Permission Palomar Observatory-California Institute of Technology - - - - Music Credits: CyberLink Subscription License - - - - You can subscribe to my YouTube Channel at this link ----- https://www.youtube.com/user/cherokee...