Palomar Mountain, Past and Present
Author | : Marion Floyd Beckler |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Palomar Mountain |
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Author | : Marion Floyd Beckler |
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Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Palomar Mountain |
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Author | : Brad Bailey |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738570013 |
Rising 6,140 feet into the sky, Palomar Mountain is one of the highest peaks in San Diego County. It is best known as the location for the iconic Palomar Observatory and its giant 200-inch Hale telescope. But since the mid-1800s, this mile-high forested oasis in the Southern California desert has also been a haven to rustlers, ranchers, and recluses, as well as practitioners of high science and promoters of extraterrestrials. Early Luiseño Indians were the mountain's first inhabitants, and ever since then, it has been a special place with a magical attraction to many looking for inspiration and solitude. Today Palomar Mountain is home to a small, thriving community with an eclectic mix of about 300 citizens, some of whom are descendants from the original 19th-century pioneer families.
Author | : California. Department of Parks and Recreation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1972* |
Genre | : Mountains |
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Author | : George Tays |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : San Diego County (Calif.) |
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Author | : California Institute of Technology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Palomar, Mount (Calif.) |
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Author | : Ronald Florence |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 581 |
Release | : 2011-08-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062105787 |
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy as the Statue of Liberty, this magnificent instrument is so precisely built that its seventeen-foot mirror was hand-polished to a tolerance of 2/1,000,000 of an inch. The telescope's construction drove some to the brink of madness, made others fearful that mortals might glimpse heaven, and transfixed an entire nation. Ronald Florence weaves into his account of the creation of "the perfect machine" a stirring chronicle of the birth of Big Science and a poignant rendering of an America mired in the depression yet reaching for the stars.
Author | : Linda Schweizer |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0262359650 |
How pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory make dazzling discoveries of astronomical phenomena beyond human experience and imagination. Ever since 1936, pioneering scientists at Palomar Observatory in Southern California have pushed against the boundaries of the known universe, making a series of dazzling discoveries that changed our view of the cosmos: quasars, colliding galaxies, supermassive black holes, brown dwarfs, supernovae, dark matter, the never-ending expansion of the universe, and much more. In Cosmic Odyssey, astronomer Linda Schweizer tells the story of the men and women at Palomar and their efforts to decipher the vast energies and mysterious processes that govern our universe.
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Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Palomar, Mount (Calif.) |
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Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Palomar, Mount (Calif.) |
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