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John Lowry Dobson was an amateur astronomer and is best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope. The design is considered revolutionary since it allowed amateur astronomers to build fairly large telescopes. He was less known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." John Dobson was also the co-founder of the amateur astronomical group, the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers.
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September 14th, 1915 in Beijing / Died: Jan 15th, 2014 - aged 98
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2014/01/17
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2013/08/04
New Response (Success): attempted to sign something for me. His brother en..
2012/02/13
New Response (Success): No sign of the FDC i sent him, but he was kind eno..
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