Would make sure that discovery is the right way to go. One of the greatest telescope superior to any and existence. He gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the new observatory. This telescope is his monument. The construction took a long time and started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. The county building a firstclass road to the top of mount hamilton. That started in 1876. By 1888 the construction was done and it could Start Building 1886 theying and by finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and they would start constructing this dome. Diameter,is large possibly 100 feet in diameter and it houses a 60 foot long telescope. The telescope is high up and you cannot reach the eyepiece easily. There are workarounds for this problem because the floor i am standing on was a huge elevator. This floor would go up to the telescope. They would ride the floor up to wherever the telescope was and easily look through the eyepiece or take the photographic plate in the late 18 hundreds or early 1900s. Astronomy in the late 1800s and early 1900s when the observatory was construct did is going through kind in theof its world in 1888. They were able to make some great early discoveries in the first two years of this observatory. Just the first nine of science observations in january of 1888 a young astronomer looked at saturn and he discovered a new. Ap in the rings of saturn a couple years later emerson barnard used this telescope in 1892 to discover the fifth moon of jupiter when mr. Barnard looked through the telescope and discovered a fifth moon that was a huge discovery. It was in fact the last moon discovered in our solar system using visual techniques. All subsequent moons in our solar system that have been discovered have been discovered photographically. The Lick Observatory plate hall, or photographic plate archive. Theas very influential in early days of astronomical photography. 100 50,000 photographic plates covering over 100 years of Astronomical Research. Today we dont use photographic plates, we use digital cameras, the observatory was a Key Organization in moving to use digital cameras for Astronomical Research instead of the old photographic plates. These photographic plates so you can see what they look like, Lick Observatory was very the moon in observations. We have many plates of the moon from the late 1800s and early 1900s. 1908. S a plate from this is a negative image so you can actually see the moon looks dark and the sky looks white when it is printed out it would look like a white moon with a dark background. Ofse moon plates are some the finest images of the moon and existence. They are routinely used in textbooks even today when you are learning about the moon. Observatory was not only doing research on the moon in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but we had a key part to play in the apollo 11 mission. Neil armstrong was put on the moon on their first trip on whats called they put up a lunar retro reflector. If light came and it would be sent back along the same path. We here at Lick Observatory use our Largest Telescope the 120 Inch Diameter telescope, to shoot a laser at the moon to hit the retro reflector and send the laser light back to us that we do stec detected with that telescope. That yielded the most accurate measurements ever done to that point. Get to see his monument finished. Was buried1876 and in San Francisco at the masonic cemetery. Was to be at his mom the men. He was disinterred from San Francisco in 1887 and was here at the base of the telescope. Literally at the base of the telescope and the telescope itself is his tombstone. Scheduledsas wednesday launch of two u. S. Astronauts into space for the First Time Since 2011, we are looking back at the history of space exploration. Firing chain is firing chain is armed. On screen is atlantis, the last of the 100 25 launches of the shuttle program. Of the winner of the teacher in space competition and one of the crew on board the illfated Space Shuttle challenger. 15 seconds. 10 seconds tower. We were in the grandstands located directly behind her parents. Lift off. After the launch everyone was cheering and excited. Were seeing our colleague fly in space