Palomar Observatory
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Using two telescopes at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, ZTF surveys the entire northern sky once every two days.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Janus was spotted using the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, with subsequent observations made by other ground-based telescopes.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
About a year after the initial discovery, De and his colleagues analyzed data from the same star, this time collected using an infrared camera at the Palomar Observatory.
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
It was first discovered in March 2022 by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in California.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 9, 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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