🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <pascalCBI8EC.C29@netcom.com> pascal@netcom.com (Richard Childers) writes:
>
>	But precisely when the shower will reach its peak - probably some
>	time Wednesday night - is impossible to predict, said Andrew Fraknoi
>	of the Foothill College Astronomy Program, also executive director
>	of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
>
>	[ Those of you acquainted with the Bay Area astronomical scene will
>	  probably better remember him as the germinator of Sidewalk Astro-
>	  -nomers, whom built their own telescopes out of wildly painted
>	  cardboard tubes discarded by carpet stores, and hand-ground their
>	  lenses, then delivered them to unexpected locations for people to
>	  be given the opportunity of seeing the sun or the moon in vivid
>	  detail - bringing astronomy, as it were, to the streets. ]

I thought John Dobson was the germinator of the SF Sidewalk Astronomers.