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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 mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet (1,300 m), overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top [4] observatory. [5] The asteroid 452 Hamiltonia, discovered in 1899, is named after the mountain. Golden eagle nesting sites are found on the slopes of Mount ...
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.
James Lick (August 25, 1796 – October 1, 1876) was an American real estate investor, carpenter, piano builder, land baron, and patron of the sciences. The wealthiest man in California at the time of his death, Lick left the majority of his estate to social and scientific causes.
I-680 (Sinclair Freeway) – Sacramento, San Jose: Interchange; I-680 exit 2A [a] West end of state maintenance at the San Jose city limit: Lick Observatory: 22.50: San Antonio Valley Road – Livermore, Patterson: East end of SR 130 and state maintenance: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
The Coudé Auxiliary Telescope (CAT) is a coudé focus telescope located at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, California, south of Shane Dome, Tycho Brahe Peak.. The Coudé Auxiliary Telescope, built in 1969, is a 0.6m (24-inch) reflecting telescope in a stationary position at a fixed focus.
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 ...
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.