Wednesday, September 30, 2009

News story on The World at Night

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Wally Pacholka just sent me this video from PBS' News Hour on The World at Night . If you don't get a chance to see one of the ex...
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PATS Redux

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A lot happened at PATS last weekend, this is just my first post on some of what took place. On the evening before PATS began I got to speak...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

The Last 200" Photographic Plate

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20 Years ago tonight the last glass photographic plate was shot with the 200-inch Hale Telescope. Astronomer Sidney van den Bergh (then of...
Friday, September 25, 2009

New Vistas in Adaptive Optics

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The folks over at SPIE have produced a new video: New Vistas in Adaptive Optics . Click on over to have a look. When you do you'll see...

Help Mt. Wilson Observatory

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I am in Pasadena for PATS and it was comforting to be able to look up and see the domes and solar towers up on Mt. Wilson . Most of the rea...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

PATS is this Weekend

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The Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show hits Pasadena, CA this weekend (Sept. 26-27) and Palomar Observatory will be on hand. If you atte...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Its Hip to Be Square

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This image of "The Red Square", named for its color and form, was made while studying a hot star. The star, known as MWC 922, is l...
Friday, September 18, 2009

Observatory is Open

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It looks like the maintenance work on the observatory's roads has been completed and we are now back on our regular hours open to the pu...
Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Web Cam Difference

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I have posted about this before (see The Difference Engine ), but if you look at HPWREN's display of the Hale Telescope webcam you can...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Palomar's Star in Hollywood

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In the Palomar Observatory gift shop we sell a coffee mug with the photo of a globular cluster on it and the words: Palomar Observatory - Mo...
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