The Sidewalk Astronomers build another telescope, this time for the Los Angeles Astro Fest 1999, at the Main Library in downtown. Bob, John and Jerry lend a hand building a 10" dobsonian. It was completed in under 8 hours and used that evening on the Moon.
The Sidewalk Astronomers are proud of their 30 years of public service. The Sidewalk Astronomers are not your typical astronomy group. We prefer to hang out on street corners and show strangers the Moon, or Jupiter and other celestial objects. A lot of people ask me when is the next dark sky party, which we try to have monthly, but. We are the SIDEWALK Astronomers, and I have yet to have seen a sidewalk, with a passing by crowd, up on top of a mountain. Dark sky parties are fun, but is not our goal. Our goal is to have that 7 year old, gaze through the eyepiece, and with amazement ask questions. For that 7 year old, to go to bed dreaming of how all this got to be so fantastic. We prefer to create thinkers, dreamers, our future. It's that simple we are the
SIDEWALK Astronomers.
DOBSONIAN TELESCOPE PLANS
We now have the plans on how to build your own telescope,
online ! Just click
here to view
the plans. If you like to still get a "hardcopy" of the plans on how to build
your own Dobsonian telescope, you can still send $2.00 U.S. (to cover the
cost of postage and handling) and your return address to:
The Sidewalk Astronomers
1946 Vedanta Place
Hollywood, CA. 90068
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PEOPLE TO CONTACT IN THE L.A. AREA
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Bill Scott 1-(323)-960-1729 ext 10
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Mike Kendall 1-(818)-842-6484
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Bob Alborzian 1-(818)-841-0548
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John Dobson is available to talk to your astronomy club, or do a series of talks about cosmology, or perhaps a telescope building workshop. John travels the country every year and we are presently filling in his time for 1999. If you are interested please call Mike Kendall phone number above, or e-mail this site.
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Questions or comments? Send email to:
astronomers@geocities.com
This site was given birth on!
October 14,1996
This, and all other pages on this site, designed for use with Netscape 2.0
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© 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, The Los Angeles Sidewalk Astronomers
This is the website of the Los Angeles Sidewalk Astronomers, a
chapter of the San Francisco Sidewalk Astronomers, a California non-profit
organization. If you'd like information on how to start your own
chapter, feel free to call the people listed above.
