A Night on the Palomar 60" Telescope

Jean Mueller invited some of us up to Palomar Mountain for a night on the 60" telescope

Jean is currently the night assistant on the 200 inch Hale Telescope. She is known mostly for her earlier work on the Second Palomar Sky Survey, done with the 48 inch Schmidt telescope. In conjunction with that project she scanned the plates and thereby discovered many asteroids, comets, and supernovas. She is standing here with a specially made "comet windmill".

Here is the 60 inch telescope from the outside...

...and inside.

Here's our group for the night (except for John Sanford who is taking the picture)