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The C. Donald Shane telescope is a 120 inch (3.05 meter) reflecting telescope located at the Lick Observatory in San Jose, California. It was named after astronomer C. Donald Shane in 1978, who led the effort to acquire the necessary funds from the California Legislature, and who then oversaw the telescope's construction. It is the largest and most powerful telescope at the Lick Observatory, and was the second largest optical telescope in the world when it was commissioned in 1959. It was then transported to Mount Hamilton, where the blank was ground and polished by the observatory. The Kast Double Spectrograph can detect spectrum from near infrared to near ultraviolet, and includes two sub instruments. The Kast Double Spectrograph, used for visible wavelength observations of stars, supernovae, galaxies, and active galactic nuclei
The Hamilton Spectrograph, an echelle spectrograph used for stellar spectroscopy and detection of exoplanets
The Shane Adaptive optics infra Red Camera Spectrograph (ShARCS), an infrared camera used with the Shane adaptive optics system

After WW2 ended, plans for a large reflecting telescope for the Lick observatory were realized by funding from the State of California in 1946. A 120 inch glass blank leftover from the Hale telescope was acquired, and ground to its figure at optical shops on the mountain. This AO system was mounted at the f/17 cassegrain focus of the Shane telescope. In 2009, the Lick Observatory celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Shane telescope. The celebration included a ticketed event with a dinner and a lecture on exoplanets by an astronomer. In 2015, the company Google donated 1 million USD to the observatory over two years.