PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = "M.K. GORDON, 2003-07-19" RECORD_TYPE = "STREAM" OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "PAL200" OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION INSTRUMENT_HOST_NAME = "PALOMAR OBSERVATORY 200-IN HALE TELESCOPE" INSTRUMENT_HOST_TYPE = "EARTH BASED" INSTRUMENT_HOST_DESC = " Instrument Host Overview ======================== The Hale 200-inch telescope is the largest telescope at the Palomar Observatory. Palomar observatory is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology. By agreement, Caltech shares use of the Hale Telescope with astronomers from Cornell University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The observatory is located on Mt. Palomar in southern California. The Hale Telescope is equiped with adaptive optics and has instrumentation that permits visible and infrared spectroscopy, as well as high resolution visible and infrared imaging. Location ======== The observatory location data given here are geodetic latitude and east longitude, based on values from the Astronomical Almanac, 1989. The geocentric site radius was determined using the MERIT 1983 earth figure, equatorial radius = 6378.137 km and flattening of the reference spheroid = 1/298.257. Latitude: 33.356 Degrees Longitude: -116.864 Degrees Earth radius at observatory: 6373.400 Kilometers" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_INFORMATION OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "N/A" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST_REFERENCE_INFO END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_HOST END