The 200-inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain is ailing. Installed last January, it has thus far taken no scientifically valuable photographs of the stars. Dr. Ira S. Bowen, director of the ...

Until then, the largest optical telescope in the Western Hemisphere had been the 200-inch (5.1-meter) Hale Telescope, built in 1949 on Mount Palomar ... a lightweight honeycomb structure from ...

The Next Generation Palomar Spectrograph (NGPS) has given the 76-year-old telescope at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory an unmatched ability to capture fainter objects ...