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(1888)
Near San Jose, CA
James Lick made money in real estate
Lick telescope a real pyramid…
36-inch Lick Obs.
Astronomy and BusinessHale 200” Hooker 100”
Keck 10-meter(s)
Hobby-Eberly (UT-A)
Lord Rosse
Soviet 6-meter
Lick 36-inch
Yerkes 40-inch
Weather station WebCams
Weather Station
• Hooker the Lowes of past
• 1917
•Yoke mount blocks North Celestial Pole
•Still in use in spite of light pollution …
100-inch Hooker Telescope
•4th “largest in the world” built by Hale (40” Yerkes, 60-in and 100” Mt. Wilson)
•Split yoke allows access to NCP
•Funded by Carnegie Institution—Andrew Carnegie made his fortune in steel, his money lives on today
•A very difficult project—technology all new
• Why larger apertures?
200-inch Hale Telescope at Mt. Palomar
Schmidt Telescope
Used to photograph the whole sky in the Palomar Sky Survey (co-sponsored by the National Geographic Society). All of sky available online at the Space Telescope Science Institute as the “STScI Digitized Sky Survey” (link on WebCT Class Web Links page)
Mayal 4-m
McMath solar telescope
Wynn
•Near Tucson
•Tax supported with other consortia, too
•Nice public program
•Tucson: good lighting
Kitt Peak National Observatory