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Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. [1] The observatory, in a Classical Revival style structure, was constructed between 1876 and 1887, from a bequest from James Lick of $700,000, equivalent to $24,497,407 in 2024.
Hotel Santa Ysabel on the road up Mt. Hamilton just across Smith Creek in 1895, Courtesy of San Jose Public Library, California Room. On August 26, 1861, while working for Josiah D. Whitney on the first California Geological Survey, William H. Brewer invited local San Jose preacher (and Brewer's personal friend) Laurentine Hamilton to join his company on a trek to a nearby summit.
San Diego: San Diego Natural History Museum: 12.4 m (est.) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 7 s (estimate) San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences: 30 ft (9.14 m) 235 lb (106.6 kg) 6.1 s San Francisco: Calico Labs: San Jose: Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium: San Jose: The Harker School: Santa Barbara: Museum of Natural History: Currently ...
When will the next planetary alignment be? Lineups of four or five planets occur every few years, according to NASA. In late August 2025, four planets will be visible before sunrise, and in late ...
The equatorial telescope, manufactured by Raymond Augustin Mailhat, is the main instrument of the San José Observatory.The telescope is a refractor astro-chart of 1990 mm focal length of 127 mm opening in each tube, the original system of weights and watch Watt regulator was replaced by an electric synchronous motor for easy tracking of the stars.
Palomar College Planetarium, San Marcos; Planetarium Projector and Science Museum, [19] a museum of planeteria at Big Bear Lake; Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, a purpose-built planetarium rendered in an Ancient Egyptian architectural style; San Diego City College Planetarium, San Diego; Hartnell College Planetarium, Salinas
Lick Observatory: 1881 Mount Hamilton, San Jose, California, US LightBuckets (commercial observatory) 2007 Rodeo, New Mexico, US LIGO: 1999: Hanford Site, Washington, US & Livingston, Louisiana, US, US Lindheimer Astrophysical Research Center (defunct) 1966–1995 Evanston, Illinois, US Llano de Chajnantor Observatory: 2005 Atacama Desert, Chile
The center is the continuation and expansion of a public observatory that has served San Francisco Bay Area schools and citizens with astronomy and science education programs since 1883. It is named after the father of hydraulic mining and benefactor of the original Oakland Observatory, Anthony Chabot .