Editing Palomar Observatory (section)

===Current research===
Current research programs on the 200-inch Hale Telescope cover the range of the observable universe, including studies on near-Earth [[asteroids]], outer [[Solar System]] planets, [[Kuiper Belt]] objects, [[star formation]], [[exoplanets]],<ref>JPL: [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-090 "Planet-Hunting Method Succeeds at Last."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220201162200/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-090 |date=2022-02-01 }} May 28, 2009.</ref> [[black holes]] and [[x-ray binaries]], [[supernovae]] and other [[transient astronomy|transient]] source followup, and [[quasars]]/[[Active Galactic Nuclei]].<ref>Caltech: [http://www.palomar.caltech.edu:8000/instruments/p200_calendar.tcl Hale Telescope Observing Runs] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121212205940/http://www.palomar.caltech.edu:8000/instruments/p200_calendar.tcl |date=2012-12-12 }}</ref>

The 48-inch Samuel Oschin Schmidt Telescope operates robotically, and supports a new [[transient astronomy]] sky survey, the [[Zwicky Transient Facility]] (ZTF).<ref name=":0" />

The 60-inch telescope operates robotically, and supports [[ZTF]] by providing rapid, low-dispersion optical [[spectrometer|spectra]] for initial transient classification using the for-purpose Spectral Energy Distribution Machine (SEDM)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/aaa53f/pdf|doi=10.1088/1538-3873/aaa53f|title=The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification|year=2018|last1=Blagorodnova|first1=Nadejda|last2=Neill|first2=James D.|last3=Walters|first3=Richard|last4=Kulkarni|first4=Shrinivas R.|last5=Fremling|first5=Christoffer|last6=Ben-Ami|first6=Sagi|last7=Dekany|first7=Richard G.|last8=Fucik|first8=Jason R.|last9=Konidaris|first9=Nick|last10=Nash|first10=Reston|last11=Ngeow|first11=Chow-Choong|last12=Ofek|first12=Eran O.|last13=Sullivan|first13=Donal O'|last14=Quimby|first14=Robert|last15=Ritter|first15=Andreas|last16=Vyhmeister|first16=Karl E.|journal=Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific|volume=130|issue=985|page=035003|arxiv=1710.02917|bibcode=2018PASP..130c5003B|s2cid=54892690}}</ref> [[integral field spectrograph]].