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 ...

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 ...

Kraft of Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories ... but until Dr. Kraft used the great 200-inch Palomar telescope to follow 20 dwarf novas through many bright and dim cycles, no one was sure ...

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 ...