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Google gives Lick Observatory $1M
- stefantalpalaru 12y agoThe laser guide star adaptive optics are fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star
- fennecfoxen 12y agoLick Observatory is cool, but the ugly orange low-pressure sodium streetlights all over San Jose are kind of depressing (and sometimes distressingly hard to tell apart from yellow stoplights). Alas. Too bad we can't have dark-sky efforts across the whole spectrum (and the whole Bay).
- raldi 12y agoSupposedly they'll all be gone within seven years: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11646883 http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11646883
- ngoldbaum 12y agoAs a graduate student in astronomy at UCSC (home of the headquarters of UC observatories) this has been really great news. After years of budget cuts there was a very real possibility of Lick closing permanently, aborting several of my fellow student's PhD projects. Hopefully with continued support of private donors and the University, Lick will be available for many years to come for experimentation, technology development, and surveys that do not require 10 or 30 meter class telescopes.