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 Palomar Observatory's smallest telescope is known as Sleuth. Sleuth is a
robotic telescope dedicated toward the search for planets around other stars.
Specifically it is searching for signs of gas-giant planets passing
directly in front of (transiting) a star. To do this Sleuth nightly monitors roughly 10,000 stars 6 degree square field-of-view in the hunt for these transiting extrasolar gas-giant planets. This planet finder is the third instrument in a network that also contains STARE (located in Tenerife) and PSST (located in northern Arizona). Candidates identified by Sleuth will be observed by our automated follow-up telescope (currently under construction in the same enclosure) 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: 
Be sure to visit Snoop (the all sky camera located in the same enclosure as Sleuth) for live nightly views of Palomar's night sky. 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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