It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than
by Patrick Rizzo Foreword Patrick Rizzo wrote the original version of this history in 1967. At that time the Eyepiece was a mimeographed newsletter. I
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