Thomson M

Review of UCO/Lick Observatory

I'm not from California, but I can't imagine many ...

I'm not from California, but I can't imagine many places in the Bay Area that has as great a view as the Lick Observatory/Mount Hamilton. To the west, you can see the Silicon Valley, parts of the San Francisco Bay and the Santa Cruz Mountains. In other directions, you can see the rest of the very golden (at least when I was there) Diablo Range. The drive up to the observatory is pretty scary, but worth it.

Discovering rocky exoplanets with robotic telescopes is also pretty cool, I guess.