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Palomar Observatory

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noun

  1. an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in southern California, having a 200-inch (508-centimeter) reflecting telescope and a 48-inch (122-centimeter) Schmidt telescope.


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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

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

The latest, the Finch, was first spotted on April 10 using the Palomar Observatory in California.

From New York Times Jul. 19, 2023

The initial discovery was made by analyzing data collected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, run at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory.

From Scientific American May 3, 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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