Often I donate my Friday evenings to teach telescope making at the Chabot Science Center. Gert Gottschalk often shows up to participate, and he reminded me that he has a
very nice webpage of his own, which has many nice astrophotos, done with film, digital cameras and CCD imaging. Take a browse, they are quite nice.
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When I was a young, I used to spend a great deal of time at our local library, which was within two blocks of my grade school. They frequently gave away old books and magazines that were no longer determined to be valuable to the community. On one particular day, I scored several dozen copies of Scientific American, and being the geeky child I was, I carted them dutifully home in my book bag.
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