Schedule
2015
- 2015-12-24:
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Townsend's Warbler in Monterey.
- Image: Townsend's Warbler.
- 2015-11-21:
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Lunar Observing Event at the Shane Telescope.
- Image: Clavius.
- 2015-11-13:
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Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Peninsula Astronomical Society7.
- Science and History of Lick Observatory: YouTube (Introductions: 00:00:00--00:09:40; James Lick to First Light: 00:09:45--00:53:42; Contributions and Discoveries: 00:53:43--01:18:45; Questions and Answers: 01:18:50--01:24:15; Informal discussions: 01:24:42--01:41:08).
- 2015-11-12:
- Mountain Lion visits Lick Observatory: YouTube.
- 2015-10-26:
- Media: Finding Lick: medium.com.
- 2015-10-15--2015-10-19:
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Teaching: Rudolph L. Minkowski Observational Astronomy Workshop for UC Graduate Students6.
- Images: 2015 Minkowski Workshop Participants: 001; 002; 003; 004; 005.
- Image: 2015 Minkowski Workshop: Discussing Great Refractor.
- Images: 2015 Minkowski Workshop, Discussing Crossley: 001; 002; 003; 004.
- Images: 2015 Minkowski Workshop: Discussing Shane: 001; 002; 003; 004; 005; 006; 007; 008; 009; 010.
- Image: 2015 Minkowski Workshop: Introducing CCDs.
- 2015-10-09--2015-10-10:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Antique Telescope Society5.
- 2015-09-26:
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Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: San Francisco Amateur Astronomers4.
Video: Positioning the Great Lick Refractor (Credit: J. Belew/YouTube). - 2015-09-18--2015-09-24:
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On Leave.
- 2015-09-18: Observing at the University of Virginia's McCormick Observatory, Charlottesville, VA: McCormick Refractor.
- 2015-09-19: Visiting the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's site at Green Bank, West Virgina: Entrance; GBT.
- 2015-09-21: Visiting the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD: STScI.
- 2015-09-21: Visiting the U.S. Naval Observatory site, Washington D.C.: USNO Portico; USNO Main Building; USNO 26-inch Refractor.
- 2015-09-22: Visit to Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania. James Lick's birthplace: Signage; Cedar Hill Cemetary; Lick Monument; John H. Lick; The Deshs; Perspective.
- 2015-09-24: Visiting NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland: NASA GSFC Delta.
- 2015-09-24: Visiting Space Shuttle Discovery: Discovery; Discovery.
- 2015-08-22:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres: Host.
- 2015-08-21:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Evening with the Stars.
- 2015-08-18--2015-08-19:
- Observing with Russell Crotty, John Weber and Tony Misch with the Nickel Telescope and Great Refractor.
- 2015-08-08:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres: Host.
- 2015-07-31:
- Lick Observatory Workshop.
- 2015-07-19:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: UC Berkeley.
- 2015-07-18:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Central Coast Astronomical Society3.
- 2015-07-15:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Stanford Linear Accelorator Group.
- 2015-07-11:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres: Host.
- 2015-07-09:
- Visit to James Lick Baths 165 Tenth Street, San Francisco.
- 2015-07-08:
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Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Sonoma County Astronomical Society2.
- Image: With Jim DeManche.
- Image: With Michael Draginis and Jim DeManche.
- 2015-07-03:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Stanford.
- 2015-06-27:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres: Host.
- 2015-06-26:
- Public Outreach: Lick Observatory Evening with the Stars: Host.
- 2015-06-08:
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Circa 4 ft Gopher Snake in Yard.
- Image: Gopher Snake.
- Image: Gopher Snake.
- 2015-06-06:
- Public Outreach: Volunteer Orientation Night, Lick Observatory.
- 2015-05-10--2015-05-31:
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Overseas:
- 2015-05-30: Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
- 2015-05-29: Live in-depth interview, BBC Radio Leicester: [1/5] [Music] [2/5] [Music] [3/5] [Music] [4/5] [Music] [5/5]
- 2015-05-28: Woolsthorpe Manor, Lincolnshire.
- 2015-05-21: 19 New King Street, Bath.
- 2015-05-20: Stonehenge.
- 2015-05-05:
- Adaptive Optics with ShaneAO+ShARCS
- 2015-04-19:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Zaytuna College.
- 2015-03-25: Visit to Kono Tayee, Clear Lake
- 2015-03-22:
- Teaching/Public Outreach: Science and History of Lick Observatory: Society of California Pioneers.
- 2015-03-14:
- Tour of Lick Observatory: UCSC Prospective Graduate Students.
- 2015-02-12:
- Tour of Lick Observatory: Series C.
- 2015-02-10:
- Google announces 1 million dollar donation to Lick Observatory: Video; Video.
- 2015-01-31:
- Dawn launch of Delta II, SMAP from Vandenberg AFB: Video.
- 2015-01-19:
- Great Lick Refractor Operation: A. Filippenko private group.
- 2015-01-17:
- Tour of Lick Observatory: M. Branson private group.
- 2015-01-01--2015-12-31:
- Year Planners1 available in pdf format.
References
1. Year Planners: Portrait, A4; Portrait, US.2. Sonoma County Astronomical Society: http://www.sonomaskies.org.
3. Central Coast Astronomical Society: http://www.centralcoastastronomy.org.
4. San Francisco Amateur Astronomers: http://www.sfaa-astronomy.org.
5. Antique Telescope Society: http://www.oldscope.org.
6. UCO/Lick Observatory Minkowski Observational Astronomy Workshop, Mount Hamilton: http://mthamilton.ucolick.org/EVENTS/2015/.
7. Peninsula Astronomical Society: http://www.pastro.org.