Tony, one of the Lick Observatory staff who works with it's pioneering adaptive optics laser system, shows me the inside of the C. Donald Shane telescope dome. The huge telescopes used in astronomy are few and far between, and laden with complex instruments and only a handful of people are trained to operate and maintain them. The 3-meter mirror on the Shane Dome telescope took 15 years to plan and build, and due to its state-of-the-art instruments and productive and influential user community remains popular due to its versatility for use in Three Optical Configurations: Prime Focus, Cassegrain, & Coude' spectroscopy. Corning was commissioned to make the unique borosilicate glass for the this 120 inch telescope mirror that was painstakingly trucked & craned up the winding switchback road to the remote site 4,400 ft above sea level in 1959. Adaptive Optics is a system first implemented at Lick Obsrevatory and involves super fast calculations on the telescope mirror surface many times per second to focus the observed image and compensate for atmospheric instability. More info on Adaptive Optics adaptive optics engineering and astronomical observation at Lick Observatory, the world’s first mountain-top observatory. https://www.ucolick.org/public/ao.html Lick Observatory is located on the summit of Mt. Hamilton in the Diablo Range east of San Jose. Driving time from San Jose is about one hour via Quimby Road (lower Mount Hamilton Road). Founded in 1888, Lick Observatory is at the forefront of astronomical research as an active research facility. It is operated by the University of California Observatories (UCO), a multi-campus research unit that serves eight UC campuses and is headquartered at UC Santa Cruz. More information is available online at http://www.ucolick.org. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Ju93kJjEY

Kelley Stoltz and his talented band including Allyson Baker on gtr, Doug Hilsinger on gtr / doodads, Corey Largent on bass and Rusty Miller on drums, performing a live version of ever Change Enough a single from his Agitated Records release Ah! (etc) available at https://kelley.bandcamp.com/album/kelley-stoltz-ah-etc all video shot by Lil Mike http://lilmike.me --------------------------------------------------------- Eyeballs & Kaleidoscope Pattern overlays provided free by Porechenskaya and MaxWebbFilms courtesy Pond5 https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/86377197-minimal-motion-art-eyes-background?ref=LilMike ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfyyAqHcpQE

John Szymanski, Jon Langford, Tawny Newsome and Bethany Thomas live at The Makeout Room in San Francisco celebrating the release of their album JON LANGFORD'S FOUR LOST SOULS on Bloodshot Records. For more info see http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/four-lost-souls ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCxYBpiq6c

Kelly Stoltz continues his constant state of mutant musical metamorphosis, where he has guested with many legendary bands, including Echo and the Bunnymen and The Monks,and now here he is with the secret super group Friendo, resurrecting a Bobby Fuller Four fave at the Rite Spot during the bar's 69th anniversary celebration. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeKVGeTV3L8