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June 3, 1948: Hale Telescope dedicated

The brainchild of George Ellery Hale, the 200-inch Hale Telescope was dedicated June 3, 1948, at Palomar Observatory in California. In promoting and fundraising for the project, Hale had a firm science agenda for the scope, but also wrote more fancifully of “the lure of the uncharted seas of space”; though he died in 1938, Continue reading "June 3, 1948: Hale Telescope dedicated" The post June 3, 1948: Hale Telescope dedicated appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .

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