Mount Palomar

Cultural  

1. The location of an astronomical observatory in California. Inside the observatory is the Hale telescope, which contains a mirror two hundred inches across; for decades, it was the largest telescope in the world and remains productive today.

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Example Sentences

A few taps on the screen, and the Zwicky Transient Facility, a robotic telescope on Mount Palomar, was reprogrammed to start the hunt.

From BBC

At that time the biggest successful telescope was the 200-inch Hale telescope on top of Mount Palomar near San Diego.

From Scientific American

Computational astrophysicist Peter Nugent of the University of California in Berkeley is taking a different tack: His graduate students will trawl through archival data from a survey begun in 2009 on the venerable 5.1-meter telescope on Mount Palomar in California to see whether it happened to spot the planet. 

From Science Magazine

If you look at the major telescopes put up over the past 100 years, they are dominated by privately funded endeavours - the Keck telescope, the Lick Observatory, Mount Palomar.

From BBC

Mount Palomar telescope focused on Mars and found no evidence at all of networks of canals or other manifestations of intelligent life, the fascination continued, fueled by books, grade-B movies and TV sitcoms--all involving encounters with Red Planet denizens of various sizes, shapes and consistencies.

From Time Magazine Archive