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The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton , in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California , United States.
The Automated Planet Finder (APF) Telescope a.k.a. Rocky Planet Finder, [1] is a fully robotic 2.4-meter optical telescope at Lick Observatory, situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose, California, USA. [2] It is designed to search for extrasolar planets in the range of five to twenty times the mass of the Earth. The ...
The first permanent mountaintop astronomical observatory was the Lick Observatory constructed from 1876 to 1887, at the modest elevation of 1,283 m (4,209 ft) atop Mount Hamilton in California. [2] The first high altitude observatory was constructed atop the 2,877 m (9,439 ft) Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees starting in 1878, with ...
The C. Donald Shane telescope is a 120-inch (3.05-meter) reflecting telescope located at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.It was named after astronomer C. Donald Shane in 1978, who led the effort to acquire the necessary funds from the California Legislature, and who then oversaw the telescope's construction.
UCO is also a managing partner of the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the center for the UC participation in the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) project. UCO was founded in 1988 to recognize the expansion of responsibilities of the Lick Observatory Headquarters to include managing the UC share of the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
The Carnegie telescope (i.e. Carnegie double astrograph) is a twin 20-inch (510 mm) refractor telescope located at Lick Observatory in California, United States.The double telescope's construction began in the 1930s with a grant from the Carnegie institution, although it was not completed until the 1960s when a second lens was added.
The Anna L. Nickel telescope is a 1-meter reflecting telescope located at Lick Observatory in the U.S. state of California.. The smaller dome on the main building at Lick had originally held the secondhand 12-inch Clark refracting telescope, the first telescope to be used at Lick.
Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey (LCES) Active 1+ Magellan Planet Search Program: Active 10+ MARVELS: Active 1+ [16] MASCARA: Active 5 [17] MEarth Project: Active 3 [18] Microlensing Follow-Up Network (MicroFUN) Merged with PLANET: 10 Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) Active 8 Mt. John University Observatory