There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world’s greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation ...

But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space—man’s ...

When the 200-inch telescope was completed on Mt. Palomar, Hubble was given the honor of first use. He died in 1953. "Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls ...

For more than two years the dome of the 200-inch telescope has been open every clear night. An account of how the astronomers on the mountain have used the instrument in their explorations ...

1d). This opened the way for the great reflecting telescopes of the twentieth century — epitomized by the 200-inch Hale on Mount Palomar and by the space telescopes. On the ground, it is not ...

Hale Telescope, built in 1949 on Mount Palomar in California and used by Edwin Hubble in the years before his death. A Soviet telescope called the BTA-6 beat it by one meter (39 inches ...

I had the opportunity to drive up to the Mount Palomar astronomical observatory. I stood inside the observation dome beneath the famous 200-inch reflecting telescope housed there. I knew how ...