{"id":2586,"date":"2006-07-24T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:44:37","slug":"mount-palomar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/2006\/07\/24\/mount-palomar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Palomar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/palomar_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2587 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/palomar_sm-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/palomar_sm-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/palomar_sm.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Just returned from a trip to Southern California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.caltech.edu\/palomar\/homepage.html\">Mount Palomar Observatory<\/a>. While immersing myself in astronomy books as a child, I often marveled at the groundbreaking\u00a0images taken with this telescope. And it carried my imagination away to\u00a0other worlds and galaxies far away. Visiting the\u00a0historic observatory\u00a0had\u00a0been a childhood dream of mine, and I was very excited to finally get there in person.<\/p>\n<p>Completed in 1948, the big 200-inch reflector was the world&#8217;s largest telescope for many decades. Together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtwilson.edu\">Mount Wilson Observatory<\/a>, it is the place where modern cosmology was born. Measurements obtained from these two observatories led to the discovery of foreign galaxies, the expanding universe, the composition of the universe, the birth and death of stars and the formation of planets.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Mount Palomar&#8217;s Hale telescope wouldn&#8217;t even make the top-ten list among the world&#8217;s\u00a0largest telescopes. Here&#8217;s a list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astro.nineplanets.org\/bigeyes.html\">http:\/\/astro.nineplanets.org\/bigeyes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"apf_post_footer\">\n<h4>Related Articles:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=3217\">In Memory Of Shihan Yutaka Yaguchi (November 14, 1932 \u2013 October 26, 2023)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2316\">R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931- 2015)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=2272\">R.I.P. L. Stephen Coles, M.D., PhD (1941 &#8211; 2014)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1963\">R.I.P. Jim Blumenthal :.<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"apf_footer\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/?p=1857\">Akina<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from a trip to Southern California&#8217;s Mount Palomar Observatory. While immersing myself in astronomy books as a child, I often marveled at the groundbreaking\u00a0images taken with this telescope. And it carried my imagination away to\u00a0other worlds and galaxies far away. Visiting the\u00a0historic observatory\u00a0had\u00a0been a childhood dream of mine, and I was very excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-english","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reinhardkargl.com\/iBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}