Help save the amazing #lickobservatory from the coming fire season!

Matching donation until midnight pacific tonight + more donors = additional dollars to support this great observatory!

Please give -- even $5 -- tonight!

https://givingday.ucsc.edu/giving-day/70344/department/70639

Lick Observatory https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gV304qoZUGo #lickobservatory

@world_beauty Awesome pic!

The title took me back to a time (long ago) when I was a kid, and the family would get ads in the mailbox for - I'm not sure what they were trying to get us to subscribe to - maybe an astronomy magazine. But there would always be an included separate piece of paper, a beautiful image of some part of space, and the title would be "Lick Observatory Photograph". And my sister and me, little smart-asses that we were, would make a production out of licking the "Observatory Photograph", and then laugh like demented loons over it for hours. Since the ads came at least twice a year for several years it turned into a ritual that no longer needed the actual licking. All someone would have to do is repeat that phrase "Lick Observatory Photograph" and we'd scream with glee.

Kids are stupid. But it was fun.

#funny, #kidsaresilly, #LickObservatory

Every once in awhile, the Lick Observatory turns into a winter wonderland ❄️

Sitting at 4200', the observatory overlooks Santa Clara County from atop Mount Hamilton.

The location begun operating in 1888, making it the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory. Today it is a multi-campus research unit owned and operated by the University of California.

#tbt #throwbackthursday #snowday #academia #lickobservatory #astronomy #astrodon @ucsc

I learned a bunch of stuff today thanks to @seb's latest custom #emoji for the #sfba: Lick Observatory! :lickobservatory (https://www.lickobservatory.org/)
#LickObservatory

It's on Mt Hamilton, east of San Jose, https://goo.gl/maps/hyMpaHoKeyMpzw5y7

It's owned and operated by the University of California.

It was founded by a bequest in 1874 from James Lick, real-estate entrepreneur and California’s wealthiest citizen.

#JamesLick had quite a life: Born in PA, learned piano making in MD, moved to NYC, then to (...)

I learned a bunch of stuff today thanks to @seb's latest custom #emoji for the #sfba: Lick Observatory! :lickobservatory (https://www.lickobservatory.org/)
#LickObservatory

It's on Mt Hamilton, east of San Jose, https://goo.gl/maps/hyMpaHoKeyMpzw5y7

It's owned and operated by the University of California.

It was founded by a bequest in 1874 from James Lick, real-estate entrepreneur and California’s wealthiest citizen.

#JamesLick had quite a life: Born in PA, learned piano making in MD, moved to NYC, then to (...)

I learned a bunch of stuff today thanks to @seb's latest custom #emoji for the #sfba: Lick Observatory! :lickobservatory (https://www.lickobservatory.org/)
#LickObservatory

It's on Mt Hamilton, east of San Jose, https://goo.gl/maps/hyMpaHoKeyMpzw5y7

It's owned and operated by the University of California.

It was founded by a bequest in 1874 from James Lick, real-estate entrepreneur and California’s wealthiest citizen.

#JamesLick had quite a life: Born in PA, learned piano making in MD, moved to NYC, then to (...)

Lick Observatory, atop Mt. Hamilton, in the Diablo Range east of the Southern San Francisco Bay Area.

#uc #lickobservatory #astronomy #mounthamilton #sfbayarea #blackandwhite #monochrome #historic