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Hale telescope
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Hale Telescope
The
Hale Telescope
is a ,
3.3
reflecting telescope
at the
Palomar Observatory
in
California
, US, named after astronomer
George Ellery Hale
. With funding from the
Rockefeller Foundation
, he orchestrated the planning, design, and construction of the observatory, but did not live to see its commissioning. The
Hale
was groundbreaking for its time, with double the diameter of the next largest
telescope
and pioneering the use of many technologies such as
vapor deposited
aluminum
and low
thermal expansion
glass
. It is still in active use.
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