The 200-inch telescope was the largest telescope in the world from 1949 until 1975, when the Russian BTA-6 telescope saw first light. The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was the first astronomer to use the telescope. The telescope (the largest in the world at that time) saw first light Janutargeting NGC 2261. Anderson was the initial project manager, assigned in the early 1930s. It was built by Caltech with a $6 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, using a Pyrex blank manufactured by Corning Glass Works under the direction of George McCauley. The 200-inch telescope is named after astronomer and telescope builder George Ellery Hale. A larger telescope would not only furnish the necessary gain in light space-penetration and photographic resolving power, but permit the application of ideas and devices derived chiefly from the recent fundamental advances in physics and chemistry." "No method of advancing science is so productive as the development of new and more powerful instruments and methods of research.
Hale followed this article with a letter to the International Education Board (later absorbed into the General Education Board) of the Rockefeller Foundation dated Apin which he requested funding for this project.
He published a 1928 article proposing what was to become the 200-inch Palomar reflector it was an invitation to the American public to learn about how large telescopes could help answer questions relating to the fundamental nature of the universe. Palomar Mountain Observatory featured on 1948 United States stamp Hale's vision for large telescopes and Palomar Observatory Īstronomer George Ellery Hale, whose vision created the Palomar Observatory, built the world's largest telescope four times in succession.
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