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William Huggins (1910) William Huggins was born at Cornhill, Middlesex, in 1824. In 1875, he married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of John Murray of Dublin, who also had an interest in astronomy and scientific research. [2] She encouraged her husband's photography and helped to put their research on a systematic footing. [citation needed]
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 $23,737,778 in 2023.
Foothill Observatory: Los Altos Hills, California, US Ford Observatory: 1998 Ithaca, New York, US Fox Observatory: Sunrise, Florida, US Fox Park Public Observatory: 1999 Potterville, Michigan, US Francis Marion University Observatory: 1982 Florence, South Carolina, US Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory: 1968 Mount Hopkins, Arizona, US Fremont ...
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]
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 .
1863 – William Allen Miller and Sir William Huggins use the photographic wet collodion plate process to obtain the first ever photographic spectrogram of a star, Sirius and Capella. [ 17 ] 1872 – Henry Draper photographs a spectrum of Vega that shows absorption lines .
1972, Spring - Albert and Ann Merville sent to California to look for a site for the observatory. [3] 1973 MIRA members viewed Comet Kohoutek from Carmel. [4] 1974 MIRA receives $75,000 grant from the Research Corporation to build telescope around 36-inch mirror. [3] 1974 Forest service grants use permit for observatory. [3]
For the 60-inch telescope, George Ellery Hale received the 60-inch (1.5 m) mirror blank, cast by Saint-Gobain in France, in 1896 as a gift from his father, William Hale. It was a glass disk 19 cm thick and weighing 860 kg. However it was not until 1904 that Hale received funding from the Carnegie Institution to build an observatory.