Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A Fix for a Common Glare Bomb

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Back yard dusk-to-dawn lights are pretty common. They are also a big source of glare and light pollution. Here is one of them turned on and ...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

60 Years Ago Tonight

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November 13, 1949, sixty Years ago tonight, the 200-inch Hale Telescope began being used for astronomical observations. Earlier in 1949, Edw...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Gearing Up

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I am giving a talk on the construction history of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at 7 pm tomorrow (November 12) night at the Fallbrook Gem and ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

A Visit to the Hale Solar Laboratory

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Last Saturday I had the rare opportunity to visit the Hale Solar Laboratory . George Ellery Hale had the building built in 1924 to serve as ...
Friday, November 6, 2009

An Amazing Model of the 200-inch Telescope

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I recently picked up some old Sky & Telescope magazines off of eBay with Palomar Observatory on the cover. Shown below is the November 1...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Autumn on Palomar

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Here's the view from yesterday morning looking out from next to the 60" telescope out across the valley to the ridge on the other s...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Flight Suit Follow-Up

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In a follow-up to yesterday's post of the manual for the F3-A electrically heated flying suit, here is where the astronomers would plug ...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Return of Flying Electric Trousers

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About a year and a half ago I did a post about Flying Electric Trousers , the heated flight suits that astronomers used to wear on cold nigh...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

"Winter" Visiting Hours Return

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It is not winter yet, but our "winter" visiting hours resume on Monday, November 2. Until the end of March the observatory will b...
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...