Lick Observatory comprises a number of telescopes and their associated instruments. These pages provide non-technical descriptions of some of these, as well as brief explanations of some of the techniques of observational astronomy used at Lick.

TELESCOPES

The 3-meter Shane Reflector and Coude Auxiliary Telescope

Aluminizing the 3-meter mirror, February 2000

The 1-meter Nickel Reflector

The Great 36-inch Refractor -- pages not completed

INSTRUMENTS

Lick Adaptive Optics

The Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph -- pages not completed

The Keck Dual Channel Spectrograph -- pages not completed

OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES

Spectroscopy

Photometry

The Astro-Cycle: How Astronomy Happens