200-inch telescope from the northeast, tube upright, Palomar Observatory. An unidentified man stands on the ground floor to demonstrate the scale of the telescope in comparison. The shutters of the observatory dome are open (top), and the interior walls of the dome are visible in the background. The elevating platform is in the foreground, on the right-hand side. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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