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Hale telescope

American  

noun

  1. the 200-inch (508-centimeter) reflector at the Palomar Observatory.


Etymology

Origin of Hale telescope

First recorded in 1945–50; named after G. E. Hale

Example Sentences

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When the object was first identified in 2018, spectra obtained with the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory showed no special features.

From Science Daily

The video was received by the Hale telescope at the Palomar observatory, where it was downloaded.

From BBC

While you’re there, you can visit the nearby Palomar Observatory, run by the California Institute of Technology, and see its famous Hale Telescope.

From New York Times

ZTF SLRN-2020 remained a puzzle until a year later, when the team analyzed its spectrum at infrared wavelengths with Palomar’s Hale Telescope and found that it was still astonishingly bright.

From Science Magazine

When I first visited the 200-inch Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain in California — a rite of passage for a young science writer — I was startled to discover, looking down the barrel of what was then the world’s largest and most famous telescope, a dinner-plate-size gash left by a tool that a worker had dropped years earlier.

From New York Times