Photograph of a newspaper clipping of the 200-inch Hale telescope with man on cassegrain platform just below the mirror cell, Palomar Observatory. The text below the image reads: "The 200-inch Hale Telescope of the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories. An astronomer can be seen on the electrically operated observing chair below the main mirror. Moving parts of the telescope weigh 1 million pounds yet move with the precision of a fine watch". Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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