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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...
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    Academy of Sciences, Lick was persuaded to leave the greatest portion of his fortune to the establishment of a mountaintop observatory, with the largest...
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    Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936)...
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    Mount Hamilton (California) (category Lick Observatory)
    Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. The asteroid 452 Hamiltonia, discovered...
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    component.) 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...
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    in Santa Clara County, California that connects San Jose with the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. The highway follows Mount Hamilton Road, a narrow...
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    1862 – June 14, 1938) was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1901 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy. He was the tenth...
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    Wilson Observatory) 1947 C. Donald Shane (Lick Observatory; 2nd term) 1946 Ralph Elmer Wilson (Mt. Wilson Observatory) 1945 Ferdinand Neubauer (Lick Observatory)...
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    1902 to 1920 Curtis worked at Lick Observatory, continuing the survey of nebulae initiated by Keeler. He headed up the Lick southern station in Chile from...
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    James Edward Keeler (category Lick Observatory)
    worked at Lick Observatory beginning in 1888 but left after being appointed director of the University of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory in 1891. He...
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    honorary degree Vanderbilt has ever awarded. He joined the staff of the Lick Observatory in California in 1887, though he later clashed with the director, Edward...
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    Astronomical Observatory, Ecuador 1878: Lisbon Astronomical Observatory, Portugal 1884: McCormick Observatory, US 1888: Lick Observatory, US 1890: Smithsonian...
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  • The Lick Object of 1921 is an unidentified astronomical object that was observed from the Lick Observatory in August 1921. Although follow-up observations...
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  • University of California. He took a position at Allegheny Observatory, and later went to Lick Observatory. In 1921, he became a naturalized citizen of the United...
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    satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in 1905 in photographs taken with the 36" Crossley reflecting telescope...
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    – May 16, 1959) was an American astronomer and the director of the Lick Observatory from 1935 until 1942. Wright was born in San Francisco. After graduating...
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    Bibcode:1892AJ.....12...81B. doi:10.1086/101715. Lick Observatory (1894). A Brief Account of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. The University...
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    and Engineering The Drake Lounge at the Green Bank Observatory is named after him Lick Observatory The Farthest, a 2017 documentary on the Voyager program...
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    the Detroit Observatory. In 1897, he was elected president of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. During his time at the Lick Observatory, he took photographs...
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  • Carl A. Wirtanen (category Lick Observatory)
    planets who worked at Lick Observatory. He was of Finnish ancestry. Wirtanen was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After visiting the observatory in Kenosha with...
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    C. Donald Shane telescope (category Lick Observatory)
    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...
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    moons and Amalthea. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at the Lick Observatory on 3 December 1904 and is named after the nymph Himalia, who bore three...
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    along with administrative control of the Lick Observatory near San Jose in the Diablo Range and the Keck Observatory near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii...
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    the Argentine National Observatory at Cordoba, had participated in four solar eclipse expeditions while at the Lick Observatory in 1900, 1901, 1905, and...
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  • remained until 1948. After 1948, Stebbins continued his research at Lick Observatory until his final retirement in 1958. Stebbins brought photoelectric...
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    Alviso; the highest is 2,125 ft (648 m). Because of the proximity to Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton, San Jose has taken several steps to reduce light...
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  • the Lick Observatory: the great Lick refractor". UC Observatories. Retrieved June 22, 2017. "University of California Observatories: Lick Observatory"....
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    Imaging Telescope at Lick Observatory, which was primarily used for the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS). By 2000, the Lick program resulted in...
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    Crossley telescope (category Lick Observatory)
    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...
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  • Salt lick, a salt deposit that animals regularly lick Lick's Homeburgers, a Canadian restaurant chain Lick Observatory, an astronomical observatory in California...
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