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Dr. Bruce Macintosh (Director of the University of California Observatories) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: "Pictures of Distant Worlds" in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, in Los Altos (see directions below) The talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, now in its 27th year. In the past three […]
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