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Observer riding the elevating platform to the prime focus cage of the 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory

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Title: Observer riding the elevating platform to the prime focus cage of the 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956-02
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Unidentified observer riding the elevating platform to the prime focus observing cage of 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory. The interior observatory walls are visible in the background.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 2003
30000
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1971
Subject: Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Astronomers
Scientists
Elevating platforms
Palomar Observatory
Observatory domes
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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