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Updates:

2019-10-14:

• Added (flickr) link to workshop photos in RESOURCES.

2019-10-13:

• Post-Travel claim forms avialable in the RESOURCSES section. To be completed, signed, accompanied by receipts and transmitted to the addressee stipulated in the TRAVEL section.

2019-10-07:

• Final pre-Workshop e-mail distribution.

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Between 10 and 14 October 2019, Lick Observatory shall host a 5-day Observational Astronomy Workshop on Mount Hamilton. Intended to provide an introduction to observing, the Workshop is open to entering and early program University of California graduate students.

The 2019 Workshop honors Virginia Frances Farmer Trimble and Roy Stanley Farmer. Virginia never got to go to college (having graduated from high school in 1933, which was not a particularly prosperous year). She did title insurance until marriage. Roy is believed to have graduated high school in 1929 or 1930. He was an enthusiastic amateur astronomer (with a paper or two in PASP in the 1930s) but also missed out on college. He worked for the Santa Fe Railroad for many years.

The Workshop is once again made possible (as in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018) thanks to a donation from UC Irvine astronomy professor, Virginia Trimble, allowing UCO to defray most, if not all, expenses.

The workshop will be run by the Lick Staff Astronomers, featuring hands-on experience with the Kast spectrograph on the Shane telescope, the Hamilton spectrograph on the Coude Auxiliary Telescope (CAT), and direct imaging with the Nickel 1-m reflector. Additionally, the Workshop promises introductory lectures, interactive observation planning sessions, rewarding observatory experiences as well as valuable networking opportunities embracing the whole of UC Astronomy.

Participants will be accommodated in the new and old dorms. Rooms are doubles or triples with shared baths. Participants may be asked to assist with food preparation.

Application Period: 5 August 2019 - 27 September 2019

Shane telescope image copyright Laurie Hatch