[DOC] [TLE] history of Palomar Observatory - Caltech Astronomy [PAR] Apr 18, 2016 ... A graduate of MIT and a founder of Caltech, in 1928 he secured a grant of $6 ... 
telescope was dedicated in June 1948 ten years after Hale's death. This is the 
Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory, an instrument that after... [DOC] [TLE] The 200-inch Hale Telescope - Caltech Astronomy [PAR] Aug 12, 2016 ... Dedicated in 1948 and the largest effective telescope in the world until 1993, the 
.... Preparations for the Observatory site began in 1935. [DOC] [TLE] Palomar Observatory - Wikipedia [PAR] Palomar Observatory is an astronomical observatory located in San Diego 
County, California, United States, 145 kilometers (90 mi) southeast of Los 
Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by 
the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ... vision created the Palomar 
Observatory, built the world's largest telescope... [DOC] [TLE] Hale Telescope - Wikipedia [PAR] Website, www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/telescopes/hale.html. [edit on 
Wikidata]. The Hale Telescope is a 200-inch (5.1 m), f/3.3 reflecting telescope at 
the Palomar Observatory ... It was the largest optical telescope in the world from 
its completion in 1948 until the BTA-6 was built in 1976, and the second largest 
until... [DOC] [TLE] Mount Wilson Observatory - Wikipedia [PAR] The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los 
Angeles County, ... The observatory was conceived and founded by George 
Ellery Hale, who had previously built the .... completed its 200-inch (5.1 m) Hale 
telescope in 1948 at Palomar Observatory, 144 km south, in San Diego County, 
California. [DOC] [TLE] Palomar Observatory: Facts & Discoveries - Space.com [PAR] Jun 20, 2014 ... The Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research center where several ... 
used by the California Institute of Technology, but the observatory is also ... was 
completed in 1948, and almost immediately, work began on the... [DOC] [TLE] Palomar Observatory | observatory, California, United States ... [PAR] Astronomical observatory located on Mount Palomar, about 40 miles (65 km) ... 
World War II delayed the telescope's completion until 1948. ... Wilson 
Observatory as the Hale Observatories by a consortium created by Caltech and 
the Carnegie... [DOC] [TLE] California Institute of Technology, Online Archive of California [PAR] The collection contains mostly Astronomy Department records from the .... came 
to the California Institute of Technology in 1948 to run the astronomy program. ... 
role in planning and developing major observatories in the U. S., and in founding
... [DOC] [TLE] Jesse Greenstein - Department of Physics and Astronomy [PAR] He became the founding head of the graduate program in astronomy at the ... 
Wilson Observatories, and he directed the Caltech astronomy program until 1972
. [DOC] [TLE] Wilson, Albert George [PAR] To be published in the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, 2nd ed. ... 
directed the Lowell Observatory, and was the founding co-editor of Icarus. ... In 
1948 Jesse Greenstein came to Caltech and founded the program in astronomy. [DOC] [TLE] 100 Years: The Rockefeller Foundation | Astronomy  Natural Sciences [PAR] Although astronomy never represented a major area of funding for the 
Rockefeller ... the former director of the Mt. Wilson Observatory, approached the 
IEB about the ... As the Caltech Trustees noted at the dedication of the telescope 
in June of 1948, ... have adopted a policy against the use of their founder's name 
in this way. [DOC] [TLE] Our Owners Meet - Thirty Meter Telescope [PAR] The 100-inch reigned supreme in astronomy until the 1948 arrival of the ... (which 
later became part of today's National Optical Astronomy Observatory), ... TMT 
formed in 2003 when its two privately supported astronomy partners, Caltech and
... [DOC] [TLE] Download the entire issue as one large (17-MB) pdf file [PAR] Mar 29, 2011 ... from 1948 to 1964, and oversaw the com- ... the Palomar Telescope was given to 
Caltech, which .... Observatories which began in 1948. If there... [DOC] [TLE] Jesse Greenstein, 93; Astronomer Gave Insight on Quasars - latimes [PAR] Oct 25, 2002 ... Jesse L. Greenstein, a Caltech astronomer and authority on the

Question: This astronomical observatory was founded by Caltech in 1948
Answer: Palomar