The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 7, 1947, Page 8

RF STX PALOMAR: Key to the Universe q ow HUMANITY’S LOOKOUT: With the aperture of the observatory on Palomar Mountain opened, the world’s greatest telescope is pointed to the sky—a culmination of the dream of the late Dr. George Ellery Hale, who conceived this greatest machine of science prior to the atom bomb, Closest to the sky in the telescope is the point of prime focus where a camera will be placed to record light reflected by the 200-inch mirror. x 9 be placed in the 135-foot high revolving aluminum dome on top ‘AP Newsfeatures of Palomar Mountain. Pe Calif—Sometime this fall the largest telescope; The S00-ton instrument which will support and guide the in the world will begin probing the heavens for their; mirror on its sweep of the universe is completed except for in- secrets, ' stallation of certain control mechanisms. The telescope’s 200-inch mirror, which is expected to bring} into focus stars never, before seen by man, is virtually ready to; By RALPH DIGHTON For 19 years, the best brains of the world have labored to MAGIC MIRROR BY THE WALL: The 200-inch mirror shown as it nears completion at Caltech’s optical laboratory. The mirror (vear right) has been put in vertical position to test the accuracy of the grinding. A light beam from the rear of the shop is focused onto the mirror and reflected into the device at left foreground which measures the angle of reflection and de. termines where additional grinding is needed. INSIDE JOB: The relative size of the 200-inch telescope is shown in this picture taken inside the Palomar observatory. The group of people is standing on a hoist directly below the concrete disc to be replaced by the 200-inch mirror moved from Caltech’s optical laboratory. Beside them is a six-inch, amateur-made telescope. The hoist will be used to give work. men easy access to the mirror after its installation, uneral Money Is Kept Ready GREAT FALLS, Mont—(AP). -~An aged man was found drunk and wneconscious on the street and when searched at jail $583.11 in currency and silver was found stuffed in his shabby trousers. ed why he carried so much money with him, he replied: Maybe I die sometime. That Is the money I keep with me for my funeral expenses.” Police withheld his name while trying to convince him that his funeral funds should be kept in a safer place, MONEY-SAVING BARGAIN with Double Your- Money-Back guarantee A. ELECTRIC bd CURRENT | VEL is the trade-mark of the Colgate, Palmotive-Poet Co. @ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN * Insurance Not ‘Collapsed’, Negro tmolehill for a colored lof Miami. (Special te The Citizen) Miami, August 7—Whait thought was going to be a moun- he|R. M. Grabel, contact officer, make this greatest dream of astrophysies come true. Wore than six million dollars have been expended. But one mishap could set the project back several years. There is a big danger that the mirror could be overground. Polishing already tion, but the final ards in the necessity of trucking the mirror from here to the summit of 5,500-foot Palomar Mountain, 125 miles to the south, If the mirror has been overground, or damaged in transit, replacement will require at least three years and perhaps longer. fi : FTER the mirror is installed in the observatory, there will of low another month or six weeks of testing instrument and} glass together before construction crews turn the telescope over to astronomers. Scientists are wary about setting dates, but sometime this fall they expect to be able to see a billion light years out into space with the aid of the Palomar telescope. They won't actually “see” stars through the scope, which is ‘The observer, operating a camera $5 feet above the mirror, will be able to see little with his own eyes that he couldn't see through any other telescope. 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