City - San Jose State - CA Country - United States
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Taken early this morning from Ken Phenicie's airplane. Thank you Ken, That was an awesome trip.
Lick Observatory is a leading astronomical research observatory with a long and disitnguished history. Since its founding in 1888 Lick has been part of the University of California, an institution which, since Lick's early days, has grown from a single campus with a handful of students to ten campuses, three national laboratories, and more than 180,000 students. The Observatory has grown along with the university, keeping pace with - and contributing to - the enormous advances in astronomy over the last century. Today, Lick continues as a world-class research institution, a leader in the development of new instruments and observing techniques, and an active center for teaching. Lick Observatory is located on 4200' Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range, east of San Jose, California. Largest among its nine research-grade telescopes is the Shane 3-meter Reflector, active since 1960. The 3-meter is in operation every clear night of the year, used by many different astronomers from within the UC system for a variety of projects ranging from observations of our solar system to distant galaxies. UC astronomers, using the telescopes on Mt. Hamilton have contributed to virtually every area of optical and infrared astronomy.
Boy I'd give anything to spend just one night in there,as long as I could hook my camera to their scope. That would be so awesome. Oh yeah, nice capture too Yamil, you did a great job exposing the whites. Bill
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