Palomar may refer to:

Places

  • Any of several locations in San Diego County, California:
  • Palomar Mountain
  • Palomar Mountain, California, an unincorporated community
  • Palomar College in San Marcos, California
  • Palomar College Transit Center
  • Palomar Health, a healthcare district covering a portion of the county
  • Palomar Medical Center Escondido in Escondido, California
  • Palomar Medical Center Poway in Poway, California
  • McClellan–Palomar Airport, informally referred to as just Palomar Airport, in Carlsbad, California
  • Palomar Street Transit Center in Chula Vista, California
  • Palomar Ballroom, 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, 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), a band from Brooklyn, New York
  • Palomar, a band formed by three members of Paw
  • "Palomar", a 1992 song by the Rheostatics from Whale Music

Astronomy

  • Palomar Observatory, located on Palomar Mountain in San Diego County, California
  • National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, often known as just Palomar Observatory Sky Survey
  • Palomar Distant Solar System Survey
  • Palomar globular clusters, a set of globular clusters discovered by the POSS
  • Palomar–Leiden survey
  • Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey
  • Palomar Testbed Interferometer
  • Palomar Transient Factory

Other uses

  • 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
  • Palomar knot
  • 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, electrical engineer
  • 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
  • Palomares (disambiguation)