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The 200-inch telescope is named after astronomer George Hale.

It was built by Caltech with a $ 6 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, using a Pyrex blank manufactured by Corning Glass Works.

The telescope ( the largest in the world at that time ) saw first light January 26, 1949 targeting NGC 2261.

The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble, perhaps the most important observer of the 20th century, was given the honor of being the first astronomer to use the telescope.