The 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope | Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope is one of the most productive survey telescopes ever built with a dozen completed surveys since the... | By Palomar
![The 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, which captured the first images of Sedna. TO GO WITH STORY BC-US-NEWPLANET (UPI Photo/NASA Stock Photo - Alamy The 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, which captured the first images of Sedna. TO GO WITH STORY BC-US-NEWPLANET (UPI Photo/NASA Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/6/0ec342f30f7b4234a235059ed8635c3a/w0m54g.jpg)
The 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego, which captured the first images of Sedna. TO GO WITH STORY BC-US-NEWPLANET (UPI Photo/NASA Stock Photo - Alamy
![About the Samuel Oschin Planetarium - Griffith Observatory - Southern California's gateway to the cosmos! About the Samuel Oschin Planetarium - Griffith Observatory - Southern California's gateway to the cosmos!](https://griffithobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20200301_214639-1200x1200.jpg)
About the Samuel Oschin Planetarium - Griffith Observatory - Southern California's gateway to the cosmos!
Griffith Observatory on Twitter: "Apollo astronauts had no time for lounging in the 1960s, when they came here to learn celestial navigation in what is now the Samuel Oschin Planetarium. Though LA's
![MikeBrown@mastodon.online on Twitter: "Last week I got to visit the telescope where we discovered Gonggong (and Haumea and Makemake and Eris and Orcus and Quaoar and more) all those years ago. https://t.co/VTKFO5vt8H" / MikeBrown@mastodon.online on Twitter: "Last week I got to visit the telescope where we discovered Gonggong (and Haumea and Makemake and Eris and Orcus and Quaoar and more) all those years ago. https://t.co/VTKFO5vt8H" /](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D70WrMZUEAAWagm.jpg:large)
MikeBrown@mastodon.online on Twitter: "Last week I got to visit the telescope where we discovered Gonggong (and Haumea and Makemake and Eris and Orcus and Quaoar and more) all those years ago. https://t.co/VTKFO5vt8H" /
![Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) instrument installed on the 1.2m diameter Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California. Credit:Caltech Optical Observatories. | sciencesprings Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) instrument installed on the 1.2m diameter Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California. Credit:Caltech Optical Observatories. | sciencesprings](https://sciencesprings.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/zwicky-transient-facility-ztf-instrument-installed-on-the-1.2m-diameter-samuel-oschin-telescope-at-palomar-observatory-in-california.-courtesy-caltech-optical-observatories.jpg)
Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) instrument installed on the 1.2m diameter Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory in California. Credit:Caltech Optical Observatories. | sciencesprings
![Multimedia Gallery - Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope | NSF - National Science Foundation Multimedia Gallery - Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope | NSF - National Science Foundation](https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/48night_h.jpg)