General Meeting
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Public
Type: General Meetings
Keywords: Dark Sky John Dobson
Held on: Feb 19, 2014 (Wed) at 07:30 PM to Feb 19, 2014 (Wed) at 09:30 PM
Speaker: David Ingram
Location: Physics/Astronomy Auditorium (PAA), Room A118, Seattle, Washington
Event Coordinator: Christopher Laurel
Overview
Please join us for our February General Meeting.
We will have a short talk followed by a couple videos. SAS board member David Ingram will speak about the International Dark-Sky Association and SAS's participiation in it. Following the talk, we'll show a short video in remembrance of DIY telescope pioneer John Dobson and a video lecture by UCB astronomy professor Alex Filippenko.
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