Lick Observatory

Lick Observatory is a school in , and has an elevation of 4,213 feet. Lick Observatory is situated nearby to the peak , as well as near .

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Hamilton and Lick Observatory Main Building.

Peak
Photo: Elf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a mountain in the in , . The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet, overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of , the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top .

University building
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an university building.

Peak
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lick Observatory.

Photo: Seano1, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is an astronomical owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of , in the just east of , United States.

Lick Observatory

Latitude
37.34105° or 37° 20′ 28″ north
Longitude
-121.64272° or 121° 38′ 34″ west
Elevation
4,213 feet (1,284 metres)
Open location code
849W89R4+CW
Geo­Names ID
5366189
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Satellite Map

Discover Lick Observatory from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Thai—“Lick Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرصد ليك”
  • Armenian: “Լիկի աստղադիտարան”
  • Basque: “Lick behatokia”
  • Bulgarian: “Лик”
  • Catalan: “Observatori Lick”
  • Chinese: “利克天文台”
  • Czech: “Lickova observatoř”
  • Dutch: “Lick-observatorium”
  • Esperanto: “Observatorio Lick”
  • French: “Observatoire Lick”
  • German: “Lick-Observatorium”
  • Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Λικ”
  • Hebrew: “מצפה הכוכבים ליק”
  • Indonesian: “Observatorium Lick”
  • Irish: “Réadlann Lick”
  • Italian: “Osservatorio Lick”
  • Japanese: “リック天文台”
  • Korean: “릭 천문대”
  • Lithuanian: “Liko observatorija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lick-Observatoire”
  • Persian: “رصدخانه لیک”
  • Polish: “Obserwatorium Licka”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório Lick”
  • Russian: “Ликская обсерватория”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio Lick”
  • Tagalog: “Obserbatoryo ng Lick”
  • Thai: “หอดูดาวลิก”

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