View of the front of the main building of the Lick Observatory. The 25-foot dome is located at the north end of the building on the left. This dome originally held a 12-inch Clark refractor. This dome now houses a 40-inch reflector known as the Nickel telescope. Scanned with Microtek Scanmaker 1000XL Pro; as a 600 dpi TIFF image in 8-bit Grayscale. Auto Level image processing applied and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop CS3.
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