Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Reminder: The Journey to Palomar on PBS

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Consider yourself reminded that The Journey to Palomar airs on many PBS stations tonight (June 22nd). Be sure to check your local listings...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Palomar in a Vintage Escondido Travel Brochure

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PALM-3000 , the world's best adaptive optics instrument, is currently on the Hale Telescope, but instead of talking about that, I am goi...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Journey to Palomar Returns to PBS this Week

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I am happy to report that The Journey to Palomar , a documentary about George Ellery Hale and the building of the 200-inch telescope, will a...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Molten Glass

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This dramatic photo expertly captured the drama as on March 25, 1934 men working with molten Pyrex glass were pouring what was then the bigg...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Corning Glass Works

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March is a good time to celebrate the contribution that Corning Glass Works made in creating Palomar Observatory's 200-inch mirror. 77 ...
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Plowing Snow

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More winter weather is due on Palomar Mountain this weekend and I am overdue in posting a History Photo of the Week, so let's combine th...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Building a Dome

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Here is another photo taken in the 1940s by Lee A. Farnsworth, Jr. It shows the dome of Palomar's 48-inch Schmidt telescope (now called...
Monday, January 24, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Sitting Down on the Job

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A couple of weeks ago I posted photos of the mirror cell for the 200-inch telescope as it arrived in California via ship. This week's...
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Monday, January 17, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Building the Horseshoe

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On January 17, 1939, seventy two years ago today, the last of the three big pieces of the 200-inch telescope's north horseshoe bearing w...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Our Ship Comes In

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Let's try to catch up on our History Photo of the Week by posting a few shots from January 13, 1936 when our ship came in. Here is the N...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - South Yoke

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For anyone out there that may have notice the huge drop in the number of blog posts here in teh last two months, other duties that have te...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Allan Sandage, 1926 - 2010

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Observational cosmologist Allan Sandage has passed away. In memory of his brilliant career our history photo of the week is 1950s photo of ...
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Monday, November 8, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - On Top of the World

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This week's history photo of the week is another photo from the wonderful collection of photos taken by and of Lee A. Farnsworth, Jr. T...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - the Arrival

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Here is a photo taken by Lee A. Farnsworth, Jr in the fall of 1938. It was taken from the catwalk of the dome of the 200-inch telescope loo...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week -

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Back in early July I posted a modern photo of the support structure of the 200-inch telescope. Here is what I had to say about it back then...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

40 Years Ago Today

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40 years ago today Palomar Observatory's 60-inch telescope was dedicated. The telescope is currently seeing heavy use as a part of the P...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - Resistance is Futile

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Looking at this 1938 photo from the Caltech optical shop you might think that this optician was the inspiration for the Borg of the Star Tr...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - The Electro-Magentic Sweeper

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The Perfect Machine by Ronald Florence is the authoritative history of the building of the 200-inch Hale Telescope. The book is a deta...
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Monday, October 4, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week: October 4, 2010

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Sixty three years ago this week Caltech announced that the job of polishing the 200-inch mirror had been completed. The lead optician on the...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Palomar History Photo of the Week - September 27, 2010

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Here is the 200-inch disc in the optical shot at Caltech on January 3, 1938*. That is a 104-inch grinding tool sitting on the huge Pyrex di...