I haven't read this through thoroughly, but a lot of the final polishing must have been done after it was in place. It was only moved from Pasadena to Mount Pal

I haven't read this through thoroughly, but a lot of the final polishing must have been done after it was in place. It was only moved from Pasadena to Mount Palomar in 1947. There is both a '47 and '49 as being when figuring was done. https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/history.html https://sites.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/about/history.html