Hale telescope

noun

1. the 200-inch (508-centimeter) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Hale telescope¹

First recorded in 1945–50; named after G. E. Hale

Example Sentences

The video was received by the Hale telescope at the Palomar observatory, where it was downloaded.

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While you’re there, you can visit the nearby Palomar Observatory, run by the California Institute of Technology, and see its famous Hale Telescope.

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ZTF SLRN-2020 remained a puzzle until a year later, when the team analyzed its spectrum at infrared wavelengths with Palomar’s Hale Telescope and found that it was still astonishingly bright.

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When I first visited the 200-inch Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain in California — a rite of passage for a young science writer — I was startled to discover, looking down the barrel of what was then the world’s largest and most famous telescope, a dinner-plate-size gash left by a tool that a worker had dropped years earlier.

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The Carnegie began eyeing Chilean skies in the 1960s as a potential site for a southern twin to the 200-inch Hale Telescope, which was completed on Palomar Mountain in 1948 in partnership with the California Institute of Technology.

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