Celebrating 75 Years of Discovery

The Big Eye

Newsletter for the Friends of Palomar Observatory

Since the summer of 2005, Friends of Palomar Observatory receive our newsletter The Big Eye two or three times a year and articles are about the current research, history, and educational outreach mission of Palomar Observatory contributed by Palomar Observatory staff, researchers, and associated enthusiasts.

Sketch of the 200-inch Hale Telescope, popularly known as the 'Big Eye.' (D.Woodbury, "The Glass Giant of Palomar")

  • Vol 17 No 1 (Summer 2022): Native Americans Name Asteroid 'Ayló'chaxnim or “Venus Girl”  •  Hale Observations in Modern Astrophysics: Compact Binaries  •  The Universe in Color Digital Exhibit
  • Vol 16 No 2 (Fall 2021): Dome Construction Digital Exhibit  •  Hale Observations in Modern Astrophysics: The SAGA Survey  •  Hale Primary Mirror Recoating in Mid-November 2021
  • Vol 16 No 1 (Spring 2021): Hale Primary Mirror Travel Log  •  It Was a Dark and Stormy Night  •  Observatory Update
  • Vol 15 No 2 (Fall 2020): The All New Palomar Observatory Gift and Book Store  •  Palomar Pandemic Operations  •  The Greenway Series: Palomar Outreach Now Offers Online Talks and Virtual Tours  •  NSF Support Success
  • Vol 15 No 1 (Spring 2020): Palomar Observatory's New Virtual Tour  •  Max Mason: The Under Appreciated Hero of Palomar Observatory  •  COVID-19 Response  •  Upcoming Events
  • Vol 14 No 1 (Summer 2019): Planetary Systems in the Making  •  From the Director’s Office: New Palomar Instrument Sees First Light!  •  Upcoming Events
  • Vol 13 No 2 (Summer 2018): Accelerating Discovery: The 2018 Palomar Science Meeting  •  Commemoration  •  COO Directorship Transition  •  Upcoming Event
  • Vol 13 No 1 (Spring 2018): Palomar 70th Anniversary: Celebrating the Legacy and Anticipating the Future  •  Zwicky Transient Facility  •  Palomar Science Meeting 2018
  • Vol 12 No 3 (Fall 2017): Weather Reports from Exoplanets  •  Palomar Docents  •  Final Season Friends Event
  • Vol 12 No 2 (Summer 2017): LIGO, Gravitational Waves, and a New Window on the Universe  •  Astronomical Interferometry at Palomar  •  Upcoming Events
  • Vol 12 No 1 (Spring 2017): Not Your Grandfather’s Museum Anymore  •  Zwicky Transient Facility Taking Shape  •  This Summer’s Events
  • Vol 11 No 1 (Spring 2016): Planet 9 From Outer Space  •  HPWREN Partners  •  Season’s Events
  • Vol 10 No 2 (Fall 2015): Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Palomar Observatory  •  The Friends of Palomar Observatory, 2015
  • Vol 10 No 1 (Spring 2015): Imaging Exoplanets  •  Legacy of Discovery  •  Friends of Palomar Observatory: Activities for the Year
  • Vol 9 No 3 (Fall 2014): Griffith Observatory  •  The Zwicky Transient Facility  •  Frequently Asked Questions  •  Palomar’s New Website
  • Vol 9 No 2 (Summer 2014): David Ciardi (IPAC/Caltech) on Finding the Youngest Exoplanets  •  The Luiseños Nation, Asteroids, and Palomar Mountain  •  Caltech’s Cosmic Web Imager Sheds Light on “Dim Matter”  •  Ask This Old Docent
  • Vol 9 No 1 (Spring 2014): Sasha Hinkley (Caltech) on The New Era of Exoplanet Direct Imaging  •  Searching the Sky for Dangerous Neighbors  •  The New Astronomy  •  Ask This Old Docent
  • Vol 8 No 1 (Spring 2013): Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein  •  The Palomar Observatory Docent Corner
  • Vol 7 No 2 (Summer 2012): Project 1640 Sifts Through Starlight to Reveal New Worlds  •  George Ellery Hale, MIT and Caltech
  • Vol 7 No 1 (Spring 2012): Updates  •  Embrace the Turns
  • Vol 6 No 5 (Winter 2011): A Life in Balance: A Tribute to Bill McLellan  •  The Palomar Observatory Docent Corner
  • Vol 6 No 4 (Fall 2011): We celebrate two Birthdays this month at Palomar Observatory
  • Vol 6 No 3 (Summer 2011): Caltech-led Astronomers Find a New Class of Stellar Explosions  •  Summer Friends of Palomar Events  •  PALM-3000 Adaptive Optics  •  Palomar People: Keepers of the Glass
  • Vol 6 No 2 (Spring 2011): Robo-AO Comes to Palomar  •  My Dream of Palomar  •  Remembering Gus Weber  •  75 Years Ago This Month  •  Friends of Palomar Observatory Programs for 2011
  • Vol 6 No 1 (Fall 2010): 60-inch Mirror Successfully Re-aluminized in August  •  Exoplanets Photographed with Hale Telescope  •  Palomar Transient Factory Supernova Count on the Rise  •  Last 60-inch Night of the Season
  • Vol 5 No 2 (Spring 2010): A Faint Star Orbiting the Big Dipper’s Alcor Discovered  •  A Brief History of the Telescope - Part 2  •  2010 Programs  •  Hale Telescope Mirror Support Engineering Project Completed
  • Vol 5 No 1 (Summer 2009): Unique Sky Survey Brings New Objects into Focus  •  Palomar Stories: Paul Jett & Walter Baade  •  A New Exoplanet Discovered Using the Hale Telescope  •  Fred Givant: 1943 – 2009
  • Vol 4 No 2 (Spring 2009): Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy  •  A Brief History of the Telescope  •  Palomar Observatory Needs You
  • Vol 4 No 1 (Fall 2008): The Journey to Palomar on PBS  •  See The Journey to Palomar at Palomar Palomar’s New Outreach Center
  • Vol 3 No 3 (Spring 2008): Edwin Hubble Honored  •  A Shot in the Dark  •  Palomar Stories: Ben Traxler
  • Vol 3 No 2 (Winter 2007): Observatory Escapes Poomacha Fire  •  Sharpest Images Ever Palomar Stories: John Strong
  • Vol 3 No 1 (Fall 2007): Journey to Palomar at Temecula Film Festival  •  Biggest Exoplanet Yet  •  Palomar Stories: Marcus Brownie Brown  •  2007 Season Almost Gone
  • Vol 2 No 2 (Spring 2007): The Big Picture  •  Oh, The Things You Will See, The Things You Will Do, and the People You Will Meet
  • Vol 2 No 1 (Fall 2006): Solar System Now Has Eight Planets  •  Palomar’s Astronomical Bandwidth  •  Adaptive Optics Moves Forward  •  Did You Know?  •  Mickey and Pluto?
  • Vol 1 No 2 (Spring 2006): Eight or Ten?  •  The Little Telescope That Could
  • Vol 1 No 1 (Summer 2005): Welcome to The Big Eye!  •  Now and Then  •  Artificial Stars at Palomar  •  Donations and Docents Boost Outreach

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