Palomar Observatory
Astronomer's Education & Public Outreach Page

Downloadable Observatory Logos:

Useful Images

Aerial Shots of the Observatory (Fall, 2005)

P200 Photos

• Hale Telescope dome with summer Milky Way

• Hale Telescope under bright moonlight

• AO laser & telescope inside dome

• AO laser from outisde dome

• AO laser from outside dome (farther away)

• LLT & laser from prime focus

P60 Photos

• P60 and Milky Way

• P60 and Star Trails

• P60 inside

P48 Photos

• Samuel Oschin Telescope with Orion

• star trails over dome

• P48 inside

Time-lapse Quicktime movies:

• Washing the 200-inch mirror (17.7 mb)

• October, 2006 full aluminizing movie with narration (Warning: Large File! ~352 mb)

• Hale Telescope open dome with summer Milky Way

• LGS movie (~6 hrs from April, 2007)

• Installing PHARO

For more information on the Palomar Observatory, contact:

W. Scott Kardel, Public Affairs Coordinator
Email: wsk@astro.caltech.edu
Phone (760) 742-2111