UCO/Lick Observatory

Sophia Hazel Levy McDonald

Observational Astronomy Workshop

October 13 - October 17, 2022

Lick Observatory, Mt Hamilton, CA

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Mount Hamilton Resources:

Lick Observatory Information Leaflet.

Lick Observatory Map.

Workshop Photos (Added 2022-10-15)

Images: flickr

External Resources

The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque (2020):
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Stargazers-Astronomys-Vanishing-Explorers/dp/1492681075

Losing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating (2018):
https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Nobel-Prize-Cosmology-Ambition/dp/0393357392/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2V1P8JZ120YPL&keywords=losing+the+nobel+prize&qid=1647313456&sprefix=losing+the+nobel+priz%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-1

Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin (2016):
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Blues-Other-Songs-Outer/dp/B01D0MP29S/ref=sr_1_1?crid=OJBVJOC74LLR&key\ words=black+hole+blues+and+other+songs+from+outer+space&qid=1652147715&s=books&sprefix=black+hole+blues+and+other+songs+from+outer+s\ pace%2Cstripbooks%2C179&sr=1-1

Voyage to the Great Attractor by Alan Dressler (1994):
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

So You want To Be A Professional Astronomer? (2008, Mercury magazine):
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.

Getting Started in Astronomy (2003, Sky & Telescope):
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.

Monthly Skymaps (skymaps.com):
http://www.skymaps.com/downloads.html

Excellent monthly summary of astronomical events. Good resource for public outreach.

Position and time - the celestial sphere and coordinate systems:
Rotating Sky Globe

Interactive tool for illustrating Ecliptic, Right Ascension, Declination, Vernal Equinox, Stars, etc. Configurable for differing locations.

A biograhy of Thomas Jefferson Jackson See:
A Career of Controversy

As discussed during a visit to the archive in 2022, T. J. J. See did not spare the Director of Lick Observatory from his communications. Among W. G. Aitken's papers is a draft response to See in which Aitken writes "you and I shall never agree".

The Astronomical Almanac Online (HMNAO & USNO):
http://asa.hmnao.com.

Supporting documentation for the indispensible annual.

Observational Mishaps (CalTech/Mirasol Institute):
http://mirasolinstitute.org/obs_mishaps/mishaps.html.

Examples of various imaging problems.

Evolution's Captain by Peter Nichols (2003):
https://www.amazon.com/Evolutions-Captain-Capt-FitzRoy-Darwin-ebook/dp/B000QTE9Y8/ref=sr_1_2?crid=A86Q7B2QFWJA&keywords=peter+nichols&qid=1666224711&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjE4IiwicXNhIjoiMi43NSIsInFzcCI6IjIuNTgifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=peter+nichols%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-2
Shane telescope with Adaptive Optics laser