One potential victim is the mighty 200-inch telescope on Mount Palomar, Calif., which has led the world in observational astronomy since the late 1940's.

Your father was out in California several weeks ago, you remember, at Mount Palomar.

Yellow low-pressure sodium street lighting is important to observers using the mighty 200-inch telescope at Mount Palomar about 40 miles away.

Now Dar turned back into the wind and climbed over the foothills below Mount Palomar.

Two thousand feet above him and closer to Mount Palomar, a large hawk circled lazily in its own massive thermal.

He introduced himself as a member of the research staff at Mount Palomar.

In an earlier book, "First Light," he wrote about the astronomers who serve and are served by the giant telescope on Mount Palomar.

A, certain Alvarez, from Mount Palomar, had released a statement.

A hundred and twenty miles to the south the astronomers on Mount Palomar had already begun their night's work.