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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_194_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope
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  • .COMPOSITE PHOTO. Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope. THIS IMAGE COMBINES TWO DIFFERENT EXPOSURES OF THE TELESCOPE AND DOME IN THE BACKGROUND. SEE 268 AND 263 FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lick_060513_268_rwx.jpg
  • .COMPOSITE PHOTO. Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris McCarthy, astronomer, with the 120-inch telescope. THIS IMAGE COMBINES TWO DIFFERENT EXPOSURES OF THE TELESCOPE AND DOME IN THE BACKGROUND. SEE 263 AND 268 FOR ORIGINAL IMAGES.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
    USA_Lickcomb_060513_263_268_rwx.jpg
  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Chris McCarthy, astronomer.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Chris McCarthy, astronomer, having his dinner in the dining hall of the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Chris stays at the observatory for 4 nights in a row. The cook, Dennise Casey, makes him a 'night lunch' (in paper bag) every evening since he works all night at the 120-inch telescope. His night lunch consists of 2 sandwiches, fruit, potato or corn chips and 3 cookies. Chris is a vegetarian.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Telescope operator, Bernie Walp, aims the 120-inch telescope at star HR3982, Rugulus, the brightest star in the Constellation Leo.
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Telescope operator, Bernie Walp, aims the 120-inch telescope at star HR3982, Rugulus, the brightest star in the Constellation Leo.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • This is the "iodine cell," a device developed and perfected by Butler, Marcy, and instrument specialist Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz. When light from a star passes through the iodine, molecules in the hot vapor absorb parts of the light at very specific energies. Then, a specially etched slab of glass spreads the starlight into a glorious rainbow spectrum?like a prism held up to the sun, but with exquisitely fine detail. Because the iodine has subtracted bits of the light, a forest of dark black lines covers the spectrum like a long supermarket bar code. "It's like holding the star up to a piece of graph paper," McCarthy says. "The iodine lines never move. So if the star moves, we use the iodine lines as a ruler against which to measure that motion."  Iodine cell.  Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
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  • This is the "iodine cell," a device developed and perfected by Butler, Marcy, and instrument specialist Steven Vogt of the University of California, Santa Cruz. When light from a star passes through the iodine, molecules in the hot vapor absorb parts of the light at very specific energies. Then, a specially etched slab of glass spreads the starlight into a glorious rainbow spectrum?like a prism held up to the sun, but with exquisitely fine detail. Because the iodine has subtracted bits of the light, a forest of dark black lines covers the spectrum like a long supermarket bar code. "It's like holding the star up to a piece of graph paper," McCarthy says. "The iodine lines never move. So if the star moves, we use the iodine lines as a ruler against which to measure that motion."  Iodine cell.  Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. 120-inch telescope. Exoplanets & Planet Hunters.
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  • Lick Observatory. Telescope dome at sunset at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California, USA. Completed in 1888 at an altitude of 1280 meters, the Lick Observatory was the world's first permanent mountaintop observatory. Its location provided excellent viewing conditions for years until light pollution from the nearby city of San Jose began to interfere with results. In 1997 the observatory is operated by California University. (1999)
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California.  Computer screen during Chris McCarthy's night long search for other planets. This shows the spectrum of a start (eschelle spectrum) from 61 Virginis. Spectral lines will move if the star has a planet?this is the motion that they are trying to detect. The sensitivity needs to read 1/1000 of a pixel. 120-inch telescope.  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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  • Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton. San Jose, California. Old computer equipment put out for recycling/trash pickup. Outside the 120-inch telescope. (Dome is lit by the full moon, 30-second exposure.)  Exoplanets & Planet Hunters
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