Palomar

American

[pal-uh-mahr] / ˈpæl əˌmɑr /

noun

Mount, a mountain in S California, NE of San Diego: site of observatory. 6,126 feet (1,867 meters) high.

Palomar British

/ ˈpæləˌmɑː /

noun

a mountain in S California, northeast of San Diego: site of Mount Palomar Observatory, which has a large (200-inch) reflecting telescope. Height: 1871 m (6140 ft)

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AXA XL, Fortegra and Palomar are among its partners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

They also made new observations of the inner planets in the system, including with the Hubble Space Telescope and the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory telescope, and obtained archival data from several ground-based telescopes.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

It took less than two minutes for the ultra high-definition video to reach Caltech’s Palomar Observatory, sent at the test system’s maximum rate of 267 megabits per second.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2023

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

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2023

They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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