Palomar may refer to:

Places

* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California: **

Palomar Mountain Palomar Mountain ( ; ) is a mountain ridge in the Peninsular Ranges in northern San Diego County, California. It is known as the location of Palomar Observatory and Hale Telescope, and known for Palomar Mountain State Park. History The Luise� ...

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Palomar Mountain, California Palomar Mountain is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in San Diego County, California. Description The community is located near the north-central edge of San Diego County within the Cleveland National Forest, southeast of Palo ...

, an unincorporated community **

Palomar College Palomar College is a public community college in San Diego County, California. The main campus is in San Marcos and three centers and four education sites are located elsewhere throughout north San Diego County. Academics Palomar College off ...

in San Marcos, California *** Palomar College Transit Center **

Palomar Health Palomar Health is a California health care district in San Diego County. It operates Palomar Medical Center Escondido, Palomar Medical Center Poway, and various other facilities and programs. Covering , Palomar Health is California's largest h ...

, a healthcare district covering a portion of the county ***

Palomar Medical Center Escondido Palomar Medical Center Escondido is a hospital in Escondido, California. It opened in 2012 and includes 288 private single-patient rooms, 44 emergency and trauma rooms and 11 operating rooms. The hospital is the only designated trauma center in n ...

in Escondido, California ***

Palomar Medical Center Poway Palomar Medical Center Poway is a hospital in Poway, California Poway () is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. Poway's rural roots influenced its motto "The City in the Country". The city had a population of 48,841 as of ...

in Poway, Califonira **

McClellan–Palomar Airport McClellan–Palomar Airport (Palomar Airport) is a public airport southeast of Carlsbad in San Diego County, California. It is owned by the County of San Diego. The airport is used for both general and commercial aviation. As of March 2013, t ...

, informally referred to as just Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California ** Palomar Street Transit Center in Chula Vista, California *

Palomar Ballroom The Palomar Ballroom, built in 1925, was a famous ballroom in Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It was destroyed by a fire on October 2, 1939. Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue be ...

, in Los Angeles, California * Palomar (bar), in Portland, Oregon * Palomar Hills, Lexington, a neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky * Hotel Palomar (Washington, D.C.) *

El Palomar, Buenos Aires El Palomar is a town in the urban agglomeration of Greater Buenos Aires in Argentina. It is located west of Buenos Aires. The city has the peculiarity of being divided between two partidos of Buenos Aires Province: Morón, where it is called E ...

, a city in Argentina ** El Palomar (airbase), Argentina * El Palomar, Valencia, a municipality in Spain * Palomar de Arroyos, a town in Aragón, Spain

Music

Palomar (band) Palomar is an indie rock band out of Brooklyn, New York. Profile The band originally formed in 1998. Rachel Warren is the only original member still in the band, though Rachel and Christina had been in the band Trixie Belden together before Pal ...

, a band from Brooklyn, New York * Palomar, a band formed by three members of

Paw A paw is the soft foot-like part of a mammal, generally a quadruped, that has claws. Common characteristics The paw is characterised by thin, pigmented, keratinised, hairless epidermis covering subcutaneous collagenous and adipose tissue, whi ...

* "Palomar", a 1992 song by the Rheostatics from '' Whale Music''

Astronomy

Palomar Observatory The Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research observatory in the Palomar Mountains of San Diego County, California, United States. It is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Research time at the observat ...

, located on Palomar Mountain in San Diego County, California *

National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey The National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (NGS-POSS, or just POSS, also POSS I) was a major astronomical survey, that took almost 2,000 photographic plates of the night sky. It was conducted at Palomar Observatory, Califor ...

, often known as just Palomar Observatory Sky Survey *

Palomar Distant Solar System Survey The Palomar Distant Solar System Survey (PDSSS) was a wide-field survey aimed at finding distant trans-Neptunian objects. It used the robotic 1.2 m Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory and the QUEST large-area CCD camera in 2007 and 2008. ...

* Palomar globular clusters, a set of globular clusters discovered by the POSS *

Palomar–Leiden survey The Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids ...

Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey The Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973. The program is responsible for the discovery ...

Palomar Testbed Interferometer The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) was a near infrared, long-baseline stellar interferometer located at Palomar Observatory in north San Diego County, California, United States. It was built by Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and ...

Palomar Transient Factory The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF, obs. code: I41), was an astronomical survey using a wide-field survey camera designed to search for optical transient and variable sources such as variable stars, supernovae, asteroids and comets. The projec ...

Other uses

* ''Palomar'' (comics), a 2003 graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez * Palomar Handicap, former name for the

Yellow Ribbon Handicap The Yellow Ribbon Handicap (formerly known as the Palomar Handicap) is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Del Mar Racetrack in Del Mar, California. The Grade II race is run on turf at a distance of one and one-sixteenth miles (8. ...

, a horse race in Del Mar, California *

Palomar knot The Palomar knot ( ) is a knot that is used for securing a fishing line to a fishing lure, snap or swivel. To tie the knot first double 8–12 inches of line into a loop and pass it through the eye of the hook, lure or swivel. Tie a very loose ...

* Palomar Pictures International, a subsidiary of ABC Pictures * Palomar S.p.A., an Italian television production company

People with the surname

* Arnau de Palomar (fl. c. 1150), Catalan nobleman *

Daniel Palomar Daniel Palomar is an electrical engineer at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013 for his contributi ...

, electrical engineer *

Enrique de la Mora Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (16 June 1907 – 9 May 1978) was a Mexican architect who designed prominent university buildings and Roman Catholic churches in which he experimented with hyperbolic-paraboloid roofs. He is generally regarded, along ...

y Palomar (1907–1978), Mexican architect * Jared Palomar, member of Augustana

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