200-inch Hale Telescope
48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope
60-inch Telescope
Palomar Testbed Interferometer
Planet Search Telescope
18-inch Schmidt Telescope
24-inch telescope
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Sleuth: The Palomar Planet Finder
The Sleuth telescope ended its survey in 2008.
The Palomar Observatory's smallest telescope was known as Sleuth. Sleuth was a robotic telescope dedicated toward the search for planets around other stars.
Specifically it searched for signs of gas-giant planets passing
directly in front of (transiting) a star. To do this Sleuth nightly monitored roughly 10,000 stars 6 degree square field-of-view in the hunt for these transiting extrasolar gas-giant planets. This planet finder was the third instrument in a network that also contains STARE (located in Tenerife) and PSST (located in northern Arizona). Candidates identified by Sleuth were then observed by our automated follow-up telescope to rule out most forms of false positives resulting from eclipsing binaries.
 Computer generated simulation of TrES-2. Credit: Jeffrey Hall, Lowell Observatory Press image showing relative sizze of Sleuth & Keck Telescopes: 
Scientific publications from Sleuth. Choose one of the telescopes listed on the right to see images and learn more about another of the Palomar Observatory's Telescopes.
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