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Title: Photograph of a newspaper clipping of the 200-inch Hale Telescope, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
1961
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1970
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: 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.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 2651
30648
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/773
Subject: Cassegrainian telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Mirrors
Elevating platforms
Astronomical observatories
Palomar Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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