An observatory atop Mount Hamilton in California, opened in 1888 as the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory, funded by a bequest from the businessman James Lick, who is buried beneath its main telescope pier. Its 36-inch refractor was the largest in the world at completion.
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