200-inch Hale Telescope

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf astronomer
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Hale_Telescope
gptkb:Palomar_200-inch
gptkbp:builtBy gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:constructionStartYear 1936
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:designer gptkb:Ritchey–Chrétien
gptkbp:diameter 200 inches
5.08 meters
gptkbp:elevation 1712 meters
gptkbp:firstDirector gptkb:Edwin_Hubble
gptkb:Walter_Baade
gptkbp:firstLight 1949
gptkbp:fundedBy gptkb:Carnegie_Institution_of_Washington
gptkb:Rockefeller_Foundation
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label 200-inch Hale Telescope
gptkbp:locatedIn gptkb:California
gptkb:Palomar_Observatory
San Diego County
gptkbp:mirrorCastDate 1934
gptkbp:mirrorPolishedBy gptkb:Corning_Glass_Works
gptkbp:mirrorThickness 0.66 meters
gptkbp:mirrorWeight 14.5 tons
gptkbp:namedAfter gptkb:George_Ellery_Hale
gptkbp:notableFinds distant galaxies
exoplanets
quasars
pulsars
brown dwarfs
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:Cosmic_Web_Imager
gptkb:Double_Spectrograph
gptkb:Wide-field_Infrared_Camera
gptkb:Large_Format_Camera
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Allan_Sandage
gptkb:Edwin_Hubble
gptkb:Walter_Baade
gptkb:Fritz_Zwicky
gptkb:Maarten_Schmidt
gptkbp:officialWebsite https://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/homepage.html
gptkbp:openToPublic limited
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkbp:primaryMirrorDiameter Pyrex glass
gptkbp:status operational
gptkbp:telescopeType astronomer
gptkbp:type equatorial mount
gptkbp:usedFor astronomer
astrophysics research
cosmology research
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:100-inch_Hooker_Telescope
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5