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evenings, offering to show and explain the night sky to people passing by. The telescope which Dobson used most frequently on the streets of San Francisco, was a classic 9-inch aperture Dobsonian, with a typical porthole-glass mirror of outstanding optical quality, made by one of his own students in a mirror making class. This telescope was portable enough that it could be taken by Dobson from his residence to many busy street corners in San Francisco, using the city's Muni public transportation. Appropriately nicknamed "Tumbleweed", since it traveled randomly about to numerous public observing locations, this 9-inch telescope is now shared among many astronomy clubs and organizations around the world, allowing people everywhere to observe the heavens with such an iconic instrument, just as Dobson would have wished.
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in coordination with two other people, having cheaply constructed several telescopes that were easy to use, including a 24-inch (610 mm) telescope that was built for approximately US$ 300. Rather than have regular meetings, the organization simply set up telescopes on the sidewalk during clear
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has since been commonly referred to as a "Dobsonian mount" in amateur astronomical circles. Its construction method makes the typical Dobsonian telescope portable, inexpensive, very stable, and easy to manufacture, while revolutionizing the sheer size of telescopes available to amateur astronomers,
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The design is named after Dobson because he is credited for being the first person to have combined all these construction techniques in a single telescope design. Dobson himself was reluctant to take credit, pointing out that he built it that way because it was all he needed. In his own words, he
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organization that aims to popularize astronomy among people on the street, along with Bruce Sams and Jeffery Roloff. Sams had built a large telescope but because at the time he was only age 12, he was not eligible for membership in the only local club – the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers – thus
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or leaving the order. He chose to stop building telescopes so that he could remain at the monastery. But one day another monk wrongly accused him as missing and reported him to the head swami. Dobson was expelled in 1967. However, he maintains that the accusation was not the true reason for his
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rather than optical viewing. Surprisingly (and controversially at the time) Dobson's telescope tied in first prize for best optics. It was also awarded the runner up prize for mechanics, despite the mechanics of the telescope and its mount being exceptionally simple.
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expulsion. The true reason, he contends, was a result of a misunderstanding. The head swami read a paper that was presumed written by Dobson, that contradicted the reconciliation of science with Vedanta, and the swami thought Dobson had rejected the swami's teaching.
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was in part to better understand the universe, and in part to inspire in others a curiosity about the cosmos. To this end, he often offered assistance and corresponded about his work with those outside the monastery.
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In 2005, the Smithsonian magazine listed Dobson as among 35 individuals who have made a major difference during the lifetime of that periodical.
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Sidewalk Astronomers has since become a prominent organization, recognized for its taking of astronomy to the public via "
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Dobson died while in Providence / Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California on January 15, 2014. He was 98.
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swami. Dobson said the swami “revealed to him a world he had never seen.” That same year Dobson joined the
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Dobson's most enduring legacy is the refinement and promotion of a design for a large, portable, low-cost
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monk for 23 years. After leaving the order (in part because the time he surreptitiously dedicated to
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was not part of the curriculum at the monastery, however, and much of his correspondence was written in
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Classic Telescopes: A guide to collecting, restoring, and using telescopes of yester-year
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presented Dobson with its Annual Award for Excellence in Public Service for pioneering
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This article is about the amateur astronomer. For other people with the same name, see
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order in southern California, but continued to dedicate most of his time to promoting
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in the national parks and forests, “where curious minds and dark skies collide”.
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so as to attract less attention. For instance, a telescope was referred to as a "
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joked that he was "too retarded" to build a telescope with a more sophisticated
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Having left the order in 1967, Dobson in 1968 co-founded the San Francisco
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Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies: A new approach to observing deep space
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Jullierat, Lee; et al. (Crater Lake Institute) (15 July 2004).
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and taught there until the 1950s. Dobson spent 23 years in a
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Mirror, Mirror: A history of the human love affair with reflection
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Dobson's life and ideas are the subject of the 2005 documentary
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Unexpectedly, the Sidewalk Astronomers were invited to the 1969
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with optical diameters unheard of before their appearance.
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did not meet the approval of the leader of the order's
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How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope
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Eventually Dobson was given the option of ceasing his
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did not hold up to scrutiny, and instead advocated a
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from the original on 2021-12-12 – via YouTube.
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in 1927. His father accepted a teaching position at
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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