Palomar may refer to:
Places
* Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
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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 LuiseĂ ...
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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
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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
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Palomar College Transit Center
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Palomar Health, a healthcare district covering a portion of the county
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Palomar Medical Center Escondido in Escondido, California
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Palomar Medical Center Poway in Poway, Califonira
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McClellan–Palomar Airport, informally referred to as just Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California
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Palomar Street Transit Center in Chula Vista, California
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Palomar Ballroom, in Los Angeles, California
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Palomar (bar), in Portland, Oregon
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Palomar Hills, Lexington, a neighborhood in Lexington, Kentucky
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Hotel Palomar (Washington, D.C.)
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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: MorĂłn, where it is called E ...
, a city in Argentina
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El Palomar (airbase), Argentina
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El Palomar, Valencia, a municipality in Spain
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Palomar de Arroyos, a town in AragĂłn, Spain
Music
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Palomar (band), 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
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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
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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
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Palomar Distant Solar System Survey
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Palomar globular clusters, a set of globular clusters discovered by the POSS
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Palomar–Leiden survey
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Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
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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 ...
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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
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''Palomar'' (comics), a 2003 graphic novel by Gilbert Hernandez
* Palomar Handicap, former name for the
Yellow Ribbon Handicap, a horse race in Del Mar, California
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Palomar knot
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Palomar Pictures International, a subsidiary of ABC Pictures
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Palomar S.p.A., an Italian television production company
People with the surname
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Arnau de Palomar (fl. c. 1150), Catalan nobleman
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Daniel Palomar, electrical engineer
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Enrique de la Mora y Palomar (1907–1978), Mexican architect
* Jared Palomar, member of
Augustana
See also
* ''
Mr. Palomar'', a 1983 novel by Italo Calvino
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Palomares (disambiguation)
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