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The Prime Focus, 200-Inch Telescope

Adler Planetarium

Adler Planetarium
Chicago, United States

This conceptual drawing shows an observer sitting at the primary focus (the point to which light rays converge) of the 200-inch reflecting telescope of Palomar Observatory. Completed in 1947, it became the largest telescope in the world and a milestone of big science.

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