Lick Observatory
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: university observatory
- Description: astronomical observatory, California, USA
- Also known as: “662 LI”, “lick”, and “ucolick.org”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Hamilton and Copernicus Peak.
Mount Hamilton
Peak
Photo: Elf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet, overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.
Lick Observatory Main Building
University building
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lick Observatory Main Building is an university building.
Lick Observatory
- Location: South Bay, Bay Area, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3414° or 37° 20′ 29″ northLongitude
-121.6428° or 121° 38′ 34″ westOpen location code
849W89R4+HVWikidata ID
Q461613
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Satellite Map
Discover Lick Observatory from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- Chinese: “立克天文台”
- Chinese: “里克天文台”
- Czech: “Lickova observatoř”
- Dutch: “Lick Observatory”
- Dutch: “Lick-observatorium”
- Dutch: “Lick-Observatory”
- Esperanto: “Observatorio Lick”
- Estonian: “Licki observatoorium”
- French: “Lick Observatory”
- French: “Observatoire de Lick”
- French: “observatoire Lick”
- French: “Observatoire Lick”
- Georgian: “ლიკის ობსერვატორია”
- German: “Lick Observatory”
- German: “Lick-Observatorium”
- German: “Lick-Sternwarte”
- Greek: “Αστεροσκοπείο Λικ”
- Hebrew: “מצפה הכוכבים ליק”
- Indonesian: “Observatorium Lick”
- Irish: “Réadlann Lick”
- Italian: “Lick Observatory”
- Italian: “Osservatorio di 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”
- Persian: “رصدخانهٔ لیک”
- Polish: “Lick Observatory”
- Polish: “Obserwatorium Licka”
- Portuguese: “Lick Observatory”
- Portuguese: “Observatório Lick”
- Russian: “Lick Observatory”
- Russian: “Ликская астрономическая обсерватория”
- Russian: “Ликская обсерватория”
- Slovenian: “Lick Observatory”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Astronomico Lick”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Astronómico Lick”
- Spanish: “Observatorio Lick”
- Swedish: “Lick Observatory”
- Swedish: “Lickobservatoriet”
- Tagalog: “Lick Observatory”
- Tagalog: “Obserbatoryo ng Lick”
- Thai: “หอดูดาวลิก”
- Turkish: “Lick Gözlemevi”
- Ukrainian: “Лікська обсерваторія”
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