Contemporaries On Commissioning
The Palomar Hale had four times the light collecting area than the next largest scope when it came online.
Three largest telescopes in 1949:
| # | Name / Observatory |
Image | Aperture | Altitude | First Light |
Special advocate(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hale Telescope Palomar Obs. |
200 inch 508 cm |
1713 m (5620 ft) |
1949 | George Ellery Hale John D. Rockefeller Edwin Hubble |
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| 2 | Hooker Telescope Mount Wilson Obs. |
100 inch 254 cm |
1742 m (5715 ft) |
1917 | George Ellery Hale Andrew Carnegie |
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| 3 | Otto Struve Telescope McDonald Obs. |
82 inch 210 cm |
2070 m (6791 ft) |
1939 | Otto Struve |
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