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...inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain has already proved itself astronomically successful. But with a little fixing it can do better still...
Astronomer Edwin Hubble told last week how he went to Palomar in January to put the great telescope through its paces. He knew already that the giant mirror and the intricate mechanism supporting it were good enough for nights when the "seeing" is only ordinary. On such nights the perfection of a telescope's performance is limited by irregularities in the air. Hubble wanted to try the great telescope on one of the rare nights (about 15 a year) when the stars hardly twinkle at all, and astronomers rejoice...
...minute exposure, the Palomar telescope recorded all that had ever been caught at Mt. Wilson. As the exposures were lengthened, fainter and more distant objects were found in constantly increasing numbers. An exposure of one hour brought in the "background," the shine of the night sky, and thus represented the maximum power of the telescope. To judge by the number of faint nebulae on it, this photograph reached one billion light-years (6 billion trillion miles) into space-twice as far as man had ever looked before. Said Hubble: "The tests confirm our previous conclusion that the Hale telescope...
Died. Russell W. Porter, 77, famed optics expert and amateur astronomer, longtime (since 1928) art associate for the 200-inch Mt. Palomar telescope; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. A one-time explorer, Porter went with Peary on two polar expeditions, got interested in astronomy while marooned for two years in the Arctic. At the Mt. Palomar project, Porter's three-dimensional scale drawings were a vital factor in the design and construction of the big telescope...
...inch Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain is ailing. Installed last January, it has thus far taken no scientifically valuable photographs of the stars. Dr. Ira S. Bowen, director of the observatory, announced this week that it might not be in working order until next fall...