Instrument Host Overview
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    The following information was taken from the Lick Observatory
    web site,  http://mtham.ucolick.org/techdocs/telescopes/
 
    The Anna L. Nickel 1-Meter Reflector has been in operation on
    Mount Hamilton since 1979. It is a highly automated, modern
    telescope which supports several Lick facility instruments for
    spectroscopy and imaging.
 
    Optics ======
    The Ritchey-Chretien optics utilize an f/5.3 primary mirror of
    38.5 inch diameter, and a secondary providing an f/17 cassegrain
    focus- -the telescope's sole focus--with an approximate scale of
    12.25 arcsec/mm. About 12% of the light is blocked by the
    secondary. (An f/17.5 chopping secondary may be mounted for IR
    work. Please specify this in advance on your time request.)
 
  Location
  ========
    The observatory location data given here are geodetic latitude and
    east longitude, based on values from the Astronomical Almanac,
    1989. The geocentric site radius was determined using the MERIT
    1983 earth figure, equatorial radius = 6378.137 km and flattening
    of the reference spheroid = 1/298.257.
 
    Latitude:                       37.343  Degrees
    Longitude:                    -121.637  Degrees
    Earth radius at observatory:    6371.6  Kilometers