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

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

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2017

Neglecting atmospheric effects, should the 5.08-m-diameter Mount Palomar telescope be able to resolve these bodies when they are 4.50×109 km from Earth?

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Armed with this information, observers at the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and California's Mount Palomar Observatory focused their large telescopes on the proper position in the sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 30 evenings a year, Astronomer Maarten Schmidt, 36, struggles with an electrically heated flight suit and enters the great, silvery dome of California's Mount Palomar Observatory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Satellite telescopes now under construction are expected to elicit far more information than even the 200-inch giant at Mount Palomar.

From The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Astronautics.