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ttp@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Thomas Pressburger) writes:

>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.


Um ... you might be right. I might be mixing them up. I met them half a
lifetime ago ... they were both friends and peers and coworkers in the
astronomical field with my father.

Apologies to both parties for the confusion ... they are both pre-eminent
in the Bay Area.

< blush >


-- richard

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