page_title: Palomar Observatory
section_title: Research
hierarchical_section_title: Palomar Observatory / Research
caption_attribution_description: English: Shot of the 18 Inch Schmidt Camera at Palomar, taken from inside the dome with the doors open during the day.
context_page_description: Palomar Observatory is an astronomical observatory in San Diego County, California, United States, 145 kilometers southeast of Los Angeles, California, in the Palomar Mountain Range. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology, located in Pasadena, California. Research time at the observatory is granted to Caltech and its research partners, which include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Cornell University.
  The observatory operates several telescopes, including the 200-inch Hale Telescope and the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope. In addition, other instruments and projects have been hosted at the observatory, such as the Palomar Testbed Interferometer and the historic 18-inch Schmidt telescope, Palomar Observatory's first telescope, dating from 1936.
context_section_description: The observatory has completed several astronomical surveys: the first in the 1950s, the second in the 1980s and 1990s, and a third in 2003.
caption: The now retired 18-inch Schmidt Camera
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