Palomar Observatory -- Palomar Mountain, CA, USA
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N 33° 21.386 W 116° 51.878
11S E 512594 N 3690810
Seeing first light in 1948, after almost 20 years of planning, building and war delays, the Palomar Observatory is still a premier research institute, conducting cutting edge astronomy.
Waymark Code: WMDBP7
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/20/2011
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The Palomar observatory has a variety of telescopes, including the huge 200-inch Hale telescope, the 48-inch Oschin telescope, and several smaller scopes involved in interferometry research, planet searches and adaptive optics experiments.
The construction of the site was supervised by George Ellery Hale who worked tirelessly for funding and other resources until his death in 1938.