Palomar Observatory

Palomar Mountain Observatory
Alternative names	675 PA
Organization	California Institute of Technology ;
Observatory code	675
Location	San Diego County, California
Coordinates	33°21′23″N 116°51′54″W / 33.3564°N 116.865°W
Altitude	1,712 m (5,617 ft)
Established	1928
Website	www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/
Telescopes	18-inch Schmidt camera; Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) at Palomar observatory; Palomar 60-inch telescope; Palomar Mountain-DSS; Hale Telescope; Palomar Testbed Interferometer; Samuel Oschin telescope ;
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Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observatory is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Yale University,^[1] and the National Astronomical Observatories of China.^[2]

The observatory operates several telescopes, including the 200-inch (5.1 m) Hale Telescope,^[3] the 48-inch (1.2 m) Samuel Oschin telescope^[4] (dedicated to the Zwicky Transient Facility, ZTF),^[5] the Palomar 60-inch (1.5 m) Telescope,^[6] and the 30-centimetre (12-inch) Gattini-IR telescope.^[7] Decommissioned instruments include the Palomar Testbed Interferometer and the first telescopes at the observatory, an 18-inch (46 cm) Schmidt camera from 1936.

^ Yale University, Dept. of Astronomy Archived 2021-09-02 at the Wayback Machine: Facilities
^ "National Astronomical Observatories". english.nao.cas.cn.
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^ "Zwicky Transient Facility Website". ztf.caltech.edu.)
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^ "Gattini IR". sites.astro.caltech.edu.