Lick Observatory

The Lick Observatory is an astronomical owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of , in the just east of , United States.
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  • Type: university observatory
  • Description: astronomical observatory, California, USA
  • Also known as: “662 LI”, “lick”, “Lick-Observatory”, “Lick-Sternwarte”, “Lickobservatoriet”, “Observatoire de Lick”, “Observatorio Astronomico Lick”, “Observatorio Astronómico Lick”, “Osservatorio di Lick”, “ucolick.org”, “Ликская астрономическая обсерватория”, “رصدخانهٔ لیک”, “立克天文台”, and “里克天文台”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Mount Hamilton and Copernicus Peak.

Peak
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is a mountain in the in , .

Peak
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University building
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is a university building.

Lick Observatory

Latitude
37.3414° or 37° 20′ 29″ north
Longitude
-121.6428° or 121° 38′ 34″ west
Open location code
849W89R4+HV
Wiki­data ID
Q461613
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“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”
  • Estonian: “Licki observatoorium”
  • French: “observatoire Lick”
  • French: “Observatoire Lick”
  • Georgian: “ლიკის ობსერვატორია”
  • German: “Lick-Observatorium”
  • Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Λικ”
  • Hebrew: “מצפה הכוכבים ליק”
  • Indonesian: “Observatorium Lick”
  • Irish: “Réadlann Lick”
  • Italian: “osservatorio Lick”
  • Italian: “Osservatorio Lick”
  • Japanese: “リック天文台”
  • Korean: “릭 천문대”
  • Lithuanian: “Liko observatorija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Lick-Observatoire”
  • Macedonian: “Ликова опсерваторија”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიკიშ ობსერვატორია”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lick Observatory”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lick-observatoriet”
  • Norwegian: “Lick Observatory”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Lick Sceawungstow”
  • Persian: “رصدخانه لیک”
  • Polish: “Obserwatorium Licka”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório Lick”
  • Russian: “Ликская обсерватория”
  • Slovenian: “Lick Observatory”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio Lick”
  • Swedish: “Lick Observatory”
  • Tagalog: “Obserbatoryo ng Lick”
  • Thai: “หอดูดาวลิก”
  • Turkish: “Lick Gözlemevi”
  • Ukrainian: “Лікська обсерваторія”

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