Instrument Host Overview
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    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 equipped with adaptive optics and has instrumentation that
    permits visible and infrared spectroscopy, as well as high
    resolution visible and infrared imaging.
 
  Location
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    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