Show first close up picture of giant mirror v 11 Z JAI lp Z 4 aw AV for the first time since work started on the inch mirror for the giant mount blount palomar telescope a photographer gained admission to the lens room at the california institute of technology and obtained this striking close up of the huge mirror center of the mirror shows a 40 inch hole through the glass plugged temporarily for polishing convenience veni ence through which the gathered light may be reflected from an auxiliary mirror to the cassegrain focus beneath the inch mirror it will be completed late in 1940 |