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Palomar Mountain is most famous as the home of the Palomar Observatory which includes the Hale Telescope. The 200-inch telescope was the world's largest and most important telescope from 1949 until 1992. The observatory currently has four large telescopes, the most recent one being a 40-in robotic infrared one operational since 2021.
Some Palomar Globulars, like Palomar 6, Palomar 7, Palomar 9, Palomar 10 and Palomar 11 are clusters of average size located nearby, yet obscured in our line of sight by dust. Other Palomar globulars, like Palomar 3, Palomar 4 and Palomar 14 are giants located in the far outer halo of the Milky Way. Some even originated from a different galaxy ...
NGS-POSS. [ edit on Wikidata] The National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey ( NGS-POSS, or just POSS, also POSS I) was a major astronomical survey, that took almost 2,000 photographic plates of the night sky. It was conducted at Palomar Observatory, California, United States, and completed by the end of 1958.
The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient and variable sources such as variable stars, supernovae, asteroids and comets.
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observatory is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ...
The Samuel Oschin telescope ( / ˈɔːʃɪn / ), also called the Oschin Schmidt, is a 48-inch-aperture (1.22 m) Schmidt camera at the Palomar Observatory in northern San Diego County, California. It consists of a 49.75 inches (1.264 m) Schmidt corrector plate and a 72 inches (1.8 m) (f/2.5) mirror. The instrument is strictly a camera; there is ...
Palomar 14; Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation: Hercules: Right ascension: 16 h 10 m 59.00 s: Declination: 14° 57′ 42.0″ Distance: 244,000 ly (74.7 kpc) Apparent magnitude (V) 14.7: Physical characteristics; V HB: 20.0: Estimated age: 10 Ga: Other designations: GCl 38, Arp 1, C1608 + 150: See also: Globular cluster, List of ...
A skeuomorph (also spelled skiamorph, / ˈskjuːəˌmɔːrf, ˈskjuːoʊ -/) [1] [2] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original. [3] Skeuomorphs are typically used to make something new feel familiar in an effort to speed understanding and acclimation.
The Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar ...
Project 1640. Project 1640 is a high contrast imaging project at Palomar Observatory. It seeks to image brown dwarfs and Jupiter-sized planets around nearby stars. [1] Rebecca Oppenheimer, associate curator and chair of the Astrophysics Department at the American Museum of Natural History, is the principal investigator for the project. [2]