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Drawing of the prime focus observing position and pedestal of the 200-inch telescope, drawn by Russell W. Porter

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Title: Drawing of the prime focus observing position and pedestal of the 200-inch telescope, drawn by Russell W. Porter
Date Created and/or Issued: 1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
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1953
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1955
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: Cutaway drawings by Russell Williams Porter: prime-focus observing position and pedestal supporting plateholder. Hale observatories catalog print no. 363. The drawing is titled: "The prime focus housing and pedestal, 200 inch telescope". The drawing shows an astronomer leaning over and looking through the focus, seated inside the observatory dome.
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
Identifier: COPC 2558
30555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/748
Subject: Telescopes--Drawings
Pedestals
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Interiors
Palomar Observatory
Porter, Russell Williams, 1871-1949
Drawings. (gmgpc)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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