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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.
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California.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]
In 1888, Lick Observatory was completed and given to the University of California as the Lick Astronomical Department. The Observatory was the first permanently staffed mountain top observatory in the world and housed the largest refracting telescope in the world at that time.
The University of California Observatories (UCO) is a multi-campus astronomical research unit of the University of California, with headquarters on the UC Santa Cruz campus. [1] UCO operates the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, and the technical labs at UC Santa Cruz and UCLA.
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.
Name/Observatory Location Lens diameter Focal length Built Comments Image Yerkes Observatory [6] Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA: 102 cm (40") 19.4 m (62′) 1897: Largest in operation [7] James Lick telescope Lick Observatory: Mount Hamilton, California, USA: 91 cm (36") 17.6 m: 1888 William Thaw Telescope Allegheny Observatory: Pittsburgh ...
The telescope is located at the University of California's Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton at an elevation of 1,283 metres (4,209 ft) above sea level. The instrument is housed inside a dome that is powered by hydraulic systems that raise and lower the floor, rotate the dome and drive the clock mechanism to track the Earth's rotation.
The Crossley telescope is a 36-inch (910 mm) reflecting telescope located at Lick Observatory in the U.S. state of California. It was used between 1895 and 2010, and was donated to the observatory by Edward Crossley , its namesake.