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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...