We are excited to share that the Palomar Observatory Gift and Book Store is now online at https://store.palomar.caltech.edu. For many years the gift store in the Observatory’s Greenway Center has offered Palomar and astronomy-themed merchandise for our visitors, astronomers, and staff. Updating the gift store in a modern e-commerce context will greatly enhance our ability to serve Palomar enthusiasts near and far with a variety of apparel, books, graphics, and gifts. So if you’re like us and you
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We proudly announce the publication of our new digital exhibit about one of Palomar’s most influential personalities, loved and admired by professional and amateur astronomers alike: Russell W. Porter. The exhibit presents three aspects of Porter's contributions to Caltech and Palomar: architecture, telescope design, and the “Giants” collection of cutaway drawings. Here’s the abstract of our exhibit: Russell W. Porter (1871 – 1949) was an American engineer, Arctic explorer, amateur astronomer, a
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The Hale Telescope dome is the central feature on the Palomar Observatory compound, and a grand expression of architecture and engineering in its own right. Any development as large as the Hale dome has many contributors, and a team of nearly 100 workers were active for three years (1936-1938) realizing the Hale dome vision. Key contributions were made by Russell Porter who served as observatory principal architect, dome lead engineer Mark Serrurier, the dome steel structure contractor Consolida
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