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Lick Observatory
noun
- the astronomical observatory of the University of California, situated on Mount Hamilton, near San Jose, California, and having a 120-inch (3-meter) reflecting telescope and a 36-inch (91-centimeter) refracting telescope.
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They are there stated to be given on the authority of "Barnard's many measures at the Lick Observatory."
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A few years ago Mr. Schaeberle, of the Lick Observatory, came to the very opposite conclusion.
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After that no human eye saw it until 1896, when it was rediscovered at the Lick Observatory.
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He was called to the directorship of the great Lick Observatory in 1898.
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It was discovered by Nicholson at the Lick Observatory in 1914.
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