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C. Donald Shane Telescope (120 inch)
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C. Donald Shane Telescope	has mounting manufacturer Judson Pacific-Murphy Corp.
	has longitude 121° 38' W
	has latitude 37° 21' N
	has mirror maker Don O. Hendrix
	has mirror type Pyrex
	has aperture 3.05 m
	has focal ratio f/5, 17, 36
	has synonym 120 inch
	has altitude 1290 m
	has owner Lick Observatory
	has creation date 1959
	has location Mount Hamilton, Calif., US
	is an instance of Cassegrain
	is an instance of optical telescope
	is an instance of Fork equatorial telescope
Fork equatorial telescope	has mounting equatorial fork
Cassegrain	has secondary mirror shape convex hyperboloid
	has primary mirror shape concave paraboloid
	has optical design Cassegrain
optical telescope	has optical design
	has reference astroweb
reflector	has mirror diameter equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)
Earth based telescope	has temperature ambient
telescope	has wavelength sensitivity
	has angular resolving power
	has effective diameter
	has operator
	has purpose observe celestial objects
artifact	has creator
physical object	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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