Contemporaries On Commissioning
The Shane telescope saw first light to a different world for large telescopes in 1959:
| # | Name / Observatory |
Image | Aperture | Altitude | First Light |
Special advocate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hale Telescope Palomar Obs. |
200 inch 508 cm |
1713 m (5620 ft) |
1948 | George Ellery Hale John D. Rockefeller |
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| 2 | Shane Telescope Lick Observatory |
120 inch 305 cm |
1283 m (4209 ft) |
1959 | Nicholas Mayall C. Donald Shane |
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| 3 | Hooker Telescope Mount Wilson Obs. |
100 inch 254 cm |
1742 m (5715 ft) |
1917 | George Ellery Hale Andrew Carnegie |
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| 4 | Otto Struve Telescope McDonald Obs. |
82 inch 210 cm |
2,070 m 6791 ft |
1939 | Otto Struve |
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