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Title: 48-inch Schmidt camera, Palomar Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958-07
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: 48-inch Schmidt camera, Palomar Observatory, with an observer at the guidescope. Hale observatories catalog no. 342. The interior walls of the observatory dome are seen behind the camera. The dome's shutter is open.
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 5X7 film neg; 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 2069
30066
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/2002
Subject: Cameras
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Astronomers
Palomar Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Observatory domes
Interior walls
Stools
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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