Saturday, October 31, 2009

High Flying Over Palomar

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On warm days when the thermals are just right we often see a lot of gliders flying around the observatory. From time to time they pass clos...
Friday, October 30, 2009

Too Far to Be Seen

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Sometimes it is pretty exciting when you look for something and don't see it. Last April there was a gamma-ray burst (GRB 090423) detec...
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Goodbye to Sleuth

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From 2003 - 2007 the tiny, robotic 4-inch sleuth telescope spent its nights at Palomar Observatory hunting down exoplanets. The telescope wa...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Last Tours of the Season

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This weekend (Oct. 31 & Nov. 1) will be the last Hale Telescope public tours of the season. If you have been putting off coming for one ...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Borego's Dark Sky Day

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Last Saturday was the big day in Borrego Springs, CA. A number of people were on hand as it was time for the International Dark-sky Associat...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Dark Skies for Borrego Springs

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Last summer I helped to announce that the International Dark-sky Association had proclaimed Borrego Springs, CA to be the world's seco...
Friday, October 23, 2009

No Power

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The power company will be doing some work in the area and power will be cut to parts of Palomar Mountain today. The observatory will be run...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Dome Dog

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I am having a super busy week with little time for blogging. Here's a photo from the collection of Lee A. Farnsworth, Jr. taken somet...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

This is the Way We . . . . .

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This is the way we wash our dome. It is possible that, until today, the dome of the Hale Telescope has never been washed except by rain. W...
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Russell W. Porter's Palomar Art on Exhibit

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Shown above is Russell Porter's 1939 drawing The Two Hundred Inch Telescope Looking Northwest . It is one of Porter's many fantasti...