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Mount Hamilton Resources:
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Lick Observatory Information Leaflet.
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Lick Observatory Map.
Workshop Photos (Added 2023-10-20)
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Images: flickr
External Resources
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The Great Star Catalogue Case (Peters v. Borst) extracted from Simon Newcomb's "Reminiscences of an Astronomer":
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Peters vs Borst
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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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Losing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating (2018):
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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
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin (2016):
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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
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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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A biograhy of Thomas Jefferson Jackson See:
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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".
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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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Evolution's Captain by Peter Nichols (2003):
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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
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