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Title: Control desk for the 200-inch telescope, Palomar Observatory
Creator: Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
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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: Unidentified man (only his right hand is visible) at the control desk of the 200-inch reflecting telescope, Palomar Observatory. Photo by Will Connell, 335 No. Berendo St., Los Angeles 4. A small lamp is visible in the foreground. On the control board itself one can see an array of meters, dials, switches and buttons.
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 2619
30616
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/759
Subject: Control boards (Electrical engineering)
Control rooms
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Palomar Observatory
Connell, Will, 1898-1961
Astronomical observatories
Astronomical instruments
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Palomar, Mount (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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