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Title: 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: 200-inch telescope with Bill Baum on cassegrain observing platform, Palomar Observatory. Baum is mostly hidden within the observing platform. The elevating platform also used to reach the telescope is seen in the upper left-hand corner of the photograph. The interior walls of the observatory dome 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 2002
29999
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1970
Subject: Large astronomical telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Baum, Bill
Astronomers
Scientists
Elevating platforms
Observatory domes
Interiors
Palomar Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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