They said the change came after UCO convinced administrators it could pay for a slimmed-down Lick program without sacrificing other priorities. UC Provost Aimée Dorr and Executive Vice President Nathan Brostrom announced the about-face in a 29 October letter. When completed, the TMT will be among the world's largest land-based telescopes. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), also in Hawaii. The UC system planned to focus instead on the larger W. The observatory would have had to find money elsewhere or close by 2018. In 2013, UC leaders, faced with shrinking funding, opted to jettison it. It also serves as a testing ground for astronomy students and new technology. Today, the observatory is used primarily to search for supernovae and planets in other solar systems.
The first permanent mountaintop observatory in the world when it opened in 1888, Lick has been involved in a string of important discoveries, from proof of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity to confirmation of the accelerating expansion of the universe.
"It's very frugal, but we've got a base budget to keep the doors open and keep the telescopes operating." "This really changes everything," said Claire Max, interim director of the University of California Observatories (UCO), which manages the observatory program for the university system. The reprieve came as a relief to astronomers who rallied to save the observatory from the budget ax. But the observatory's financial future remains as tricky as the road that twists to its perch on a mountaintop above San Jose. University of California (UC) administrators have scrapped a plan to cut funding for the facility. The historic Lick Observatory in California has gained a new lease on life.
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