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Dust Collectors

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Civic Astronomy

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“I was faced,” said the seventh director of the Dudley Observatory, Curtis Hemenway, “with the problem of what to do with a small observatory in the middle of a city.”276 By 1971, he seemed to have solved that problem.

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Wise, G. (2004). Dust Collectors. In: Civic Astronomy. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 316. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2678-2_8

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