We are excited to share that the Palomar Observatory Gift and Book Store is now online at https://store.palomar.caltech.edu. For many years the gift store in the Observatory’s Greenway Center has offered Palomar and astronomy-themed merchandise for our visitors, astronomers, and staff. Updating the gift store in a modern e-commerce context will greatly enhance our ability to serve Palomar enthusiasts near and far with a variety of apparel, books, graphics, and gifts. So if you’re like us and you
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We are excited to share that the Palomar Observatory Gift and Book Store is now online at https://store.palomar.caltech.edu. For many years the gift store in the Observatory’s Greenway Center has offered Palomar and astronomy-themed merchandise for our visitors, astronomers, and staff. Updating the gift store in a modern e-commerce context will greatly enhance our ability to serve Palomar enthusiasts near and far with a variety of apparel, books, graphics, and gifts. So if you’re like us and you
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We proudly announce the publication of our new digital exhibit about one of Palomar’s most influential personalities, loved and admired by professional and amateur astronomers alike: Russell W. Porter. The exhibit presents three aspects of Porter's contributions to Caltech and Palomar: architecture, telescope design, and the “Giants” collection of cutaway drawings. Here’s the abstract of our exhibit: Russell W. Porter (1871 – 1949) was an American engineer, Arctic explorer, amateur astronomer, a
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We proudly announce the publication of our new digital exhibit about one of Palomar’s most influential personalities, loved and admired by professional and amateur astronomers alike: Russell W. Porter. The exhibit presents three aspects of Porter's contributions to Caltech and Palomar: architecture, telescope design, and the “Giants” collection of cutaway drawings. Here’s the abstract of our exhibit: Russell W. Porter (1871 – 1949) was an American engineer, Arctic explorer, amateur astronomer, a
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The Hale Telescope dome is the central feature on the Palomar Observatory compound, and a grand expression of architecture and engineering in its own right. Any development as large as the Hale dome has many contributors, and a team of nearly 100 workers were active for three years (1936-1938) realizing the Hale dome vision. Key contributions were made by Russell Porter who served as observatory principal architect, dome lead engineer Mark Serrurier, the dome steel structure contractor Consolida
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The Hale Telescope dome is the central feature on the Palomar Observatory compound, and a grand expression of architecture and engineering in its own right. Any development as large as the Hale dome has many contributors, and a team of nearly 100 workers were active for three years (1936-1938) realizing the Hale dome vision. Key contributions were made by Russell Porter who served as observatory principal architect, dome lead engineer Mark Serrurier, the dome steel structure contractor Consolida
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Observatory Closure Notice The observatory will be closed to the public on Wednesday, 11/5, and Thursday, 11/6 while the 200-inch mirror is cleaned and re-aluminized. ✨ This special aluminizing process only happens every two years and is essential for keeping the telescope performing at its best. What is the aluminizing process like? It involves carefully removing, cleaning, and coating the giant mirror with a thin layer of aluminum to ensure maximum reflectivity — a truly fascinating behind-the
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Observatory Closure Notice The observatory will be closed to the public on Wednesday, 11/5, and Thursday, 11/6 while the 200-inch mirror is cleaned and re-aluminized. ✨ This special aluminizing process only happens every two years and is essential for keeping the telescope performing at its best. What is the aluminizing process like? It involves carefully removing, cleaning, and coating the giant mirror with a thin layer of aluminum to ensure maximum reflectivity — a truly fascinating behind-the
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About the legendary telescope at Palomar Mountain. Video for Palomar Observatory and its bilingual virtual tour: https://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/visitor/media/palomartour/ | Palomar Observatory
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About the legendary telescope at Palomar Mountain. Video for Palomar Observatory and its bilingual virtual tour: https://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/visitor/media/palomartour/ | Palomar Observatory
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Palomar Observatory’s 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope is one of the most productive survey telescopes ever built with a dozen completed surveys since the 1950s. The wide-field imaging capabilities of this telescope (it has a usable field hundreds of times larger than that of the 200-inch Hale Telescope) makes it ideal for conducting systematic surveys of the sky. In recent years, the Samuel Oschin Telescope has been used to scan large regions of the sky to search for transient events—objects tha
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Palomar Observatory’s 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope is one of the most productive survey telescopes ever built with a dozen completed surveys since the 1950s. The wide-field imaging capabilities of this telescope (it has a usable field hundreds of times larger than that of the 200-inch Hale Telescope) makes it ideal for conducting systematic surveys of the sky. In recent years, the Samuel Oschin Telescope has been used to scan large regions of the sky to search for transient events—objects tha
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About the Palomar/Hale 200-inch mirror and its recoating process. Video for Palomar Observatory and its bilingual virtual tour: https://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/visitor/media/palomartour/ | Palomar Observatory
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The opening ceremony of the Mount Palomar Observatory, 1948 | Britannica
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Tomorrow April 10 marks the 85th anniversary of the Hale Telescope 200-inch mirror blank arriving to Caltech from Corning NY, where it was cast. The largest (future) telescope mirror in the world had traveled for 16 days, 3400 miles across the United States by rail. It was a journey that captured the public’s imagination—thousands would stand along the route to watch the “Big Eye” go by. The Pyrex 200-inch disk arrived safely at Caltech on April 10, 1936. To celebrate the anniversary of this Pal
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The Hale Telescope is used every night for astronomical research thanks to a modern and evolving instrument suite. Hale Telescope instruments provide a wide range of imaging and spectroscopic capabilities in the optical and near-infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/telescopes/hale.html#instruments | Palomar Observatory
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The Hale Telescope is used every night for astronomical research thanks to a modern and evolving instrument suite. Some of the Hale instrumentation uses adaptive optics capabilities that correct for distortions caused by Earth’s atmosphere—known as seeing, what makes stars twinkle—to deliver sharp images comparable to those produced by space telescopes from a ground-based facility. PALM-3000 is the facility adaptive optics system for the Hale Telescope. The heart of the system is a deformable mi
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The astronomical community has lost a pioneer. Flagstaff astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker passed away Friday at the age of ninety-two. She discovered more than thirty comets in her lifetime, and blazed a path for women in the sciences. Carolyn S. Shoemaker started her astronomical career in 1980 at Palomar. That year, she was hired at the USGS as a visiting scientist, and in 1989 began work as an astronomy research professor at Northern Arizona University (NAU). She concentrated her work on searchin
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Space | universe | knowledge on Instagram: "On July 19, 1952, Palomar Observatory was undertaking a photographic survey of the night sky. Part of the project was to take multiple images of the same region of sky, to help identify things such as asteroids. At around 8:52 that evening a photographic plate captured the light of three stars clustered together. At a magnitude of 15, they were reasonably bright in the image. At 9:45 pm the same region of sky was captured again, but this time the three
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