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Mount Hamilton Resources:
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UCSC Post Travel Expense: Form.
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Lick Observatory Information Leaflet.
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Lick Observatory Map.
Workshop Photos (Added 2021-10-15)
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Images: flickr
Observing Logs
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Nickel+CCD: Google
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Shane+Kast: Google
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CAT+Hamilton: Google
External Resources
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The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque (2020):
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https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stargazers-Astronomys-Vanishing-Explorers/dp/1492681075
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Voyage to the Great Attractor by Alan Dressler (1994):
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https://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Great-Attractor-Exploring-Intergalactic/dp/0394588991/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=alan+dressler+voyage&qid=1634536527&s=books&sr=1-1
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So You want To Be A Professional Astronomer?
(2008, Mercury magazine):
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http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/dforbes/mercury.pdf
A light article on a carreer in astronomy by
Professor Duncan Forbes of Swinburne University,
Australia published in the Astronomical Society of
the Pacific's quarterly magazine.
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Getting Started in Astronomy
(2003, Sky & Telescope):
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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/howto/basics/Getting_Started_in_Astronomy.html
Useful briefings on the night sky for both Northern
and Southern Hemispheres.
Good resource for public outreach.
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Monthly Skymaps (skymaps.com):
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http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html
Excellent monthly summary of astronomical events.
Good resource for public outreach.
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Position and time - the celestial sphere and coordinate systems:
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Rotating Sky Globe
Interactive tool for illustrating
Ecliptic,
Right Ascension,
Declination,
Vernal Equinox,
Stars, etc. Configurable for differing locations.
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American Practical Navigator (`APN' or
`Bowditch' 1802; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency):
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http://msi.nga.mil/NGAPortal/MSI.portal.
A freely-available resource, valuable as an
introduction to the celestial spehere.
Since Bowditch's American Practical Navigator is
primarly published for maritime operations, there
are some important differences in terminology used
(for example, Sidereal Hour Angle, measured in
degrees West along the celestial equator from the
Vernal Equinox is the expliment of Right
Ascension, measured in hours,
minutes and seconds East of the Vernal Equinox).
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The Astronomical Almanac Online (HMNAO & USNO):
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http://asa.hmnao.com.
Supporting documentation for the
indispensible annual.
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Observational Mishaps (CalTech/Mirasol Institute):
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http://mirasolinstitute.org/obs_mishaps/mishaps.html.
Examples of various imaging problems.
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