Telescopes
200-inch Hale Telescope
48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope
60-inch Telescope
Palomar Testbed Interferometer
Planet Search
Telescope
18-inch Schmidt Telescope
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The dome that covers the 200-inch telescope weighs approximately 1000
tons, but it rotates smoothly on a series of railroad car wheels. As
the telescope moves about to point at different positions on the sky,
the dome follows automatically to keep the 'dome slit' aligned to the
telescope azimuth. This animation (Quicktime, 2.0 Mb)
shows a time-lapse sequence of the dome rotating through 180 degrees.
In reality, this rotation would take a minute or two.
Quicktime time-lapse movie of dome rotation at sunrise (3.7 mb)
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