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Junior Center scores with astronomy event Posted in the Contra Costa Times on Friday, December 1, 2006 by Lynn Meza The Junior Center of Art and Science at 558 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland held its fifth annual Star Party on Oct. 28 and the event was hailed as a success. Amateur astronomers Andrew Bell and Hugh Bartlett, who enjoy local public astronomy events, were in attendance. Bell brought a 14-inch reflecting telescope that he built himself in 1974 in one of John Dobson's early San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomer telescope-making classes. Bartlett brought a 12-inch telescope. For the first hour of the party from 6 to 7 p.m., all the telescopes were pointed at the moon. Once it became darker, attendees were able to look at the Ring Nebula in the constellation Vega and the Great Cluster in the constellation Hercules. Contra Costa Times |
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