Earlier,astronomer George Ellery Hale had offered Hubble a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in southern California.
VOA: special.2009.04.29
It's taken more than six years of development, but a new imaging system for the Palomar Observatory's 200-inch Hale Telescope finally started capturing images last month, and promises to aid significantly in the search for planets outside our solar system (otherwise known as exoplanets).