What is Palomar Observatory?
{{Infobox observatory|location=[[San Diego County, California]]}} '''Palomar Observatory''' is a [[wikt:private|privately]] owned [[observatory]] in [[San Diego County, California]], 90 miles (145 [[km]]) [[southeast]] of [[Mount Wilson Observatory]], on [[Palomar Mountain]] in the [[Palomar Mountain Range]]. It is owned and run by the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech). The observatory is made up of four main [[telescope]]s: the 200 [[inch]] (5.08 m) [[Hale telescope]], the 48 inch (1.22 m) [[Samuel Oschin telescope]], the 18 inch (457 millimeter) [[Schmidt telescope]], and a 60 inch (1.52 m) [[reflecting telescope]]. Also, the [[Palomar Testbed Interferometer]] is located at this observatory. == Name == The word ''palomar'' is from the [[Spanish language]], meaning ''pigeon house''. The name may be because of the many [[pigeon]]s that can be seen in the [[Spring (season)|spring]] and [[autumn]] months on Palomar Mountain, or it may be because of an old pigeon-raising building built there by the [[Spaniards]].<ref> {{cite book | url = http://www.peterbrueggeman.com/palomarhistory/wood.pdf | title = Palomar from teepee to telescope | last = Wood | first = Catherine M. | publisher = Frye & Smith | location = San Diego | year = 1937 | accessdate = 2017-02-22}} p. 4.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{multistub|US|science}} {{Commonscat}} [[Category:Astronomical observatories in California]] [[Category:San Diego County, California]]