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.
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🛸 How can these strange lights in the sky, captured before the space age, be explained?
Observation of the night sky, before the advent of satellites, was assumed to be free of the artificial bright points that ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This Palomar Mountain Observatory ...
The 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain has already proved itself astronomically successful. But with a little fixing it can do better still. Astronomer Edwin Hubble told last week how he went ...
In the February 1939 issue, Popular Mechanics explored the most advanced telescope of the era on Palomar Mountain, southwest of Pasadena. At the time, the telescope was capable of gathering four times ...
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 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Fire officials at their command center in Riverside said the Mt. Palomar ...
Stars whirl over the 200-inch Hale Telescope's dome in a time-exposure photo. Astronomer George Ellery Hale's decades-long drive to build bigger and bigger telescopes is the stuff that operas are made ...
A PROJECT of photographing the heavens has been announced by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., which is sponsoring the scheme, and by the Mt. Wilson–Palomar Observatories, which will ...
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