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The skies were full of stars for me to learn.
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I had watched a dozen comets, hitherto unknown, slowly creep across the sky as each one signed its sweeping flourish in the guest book of the Sun.
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No true star-gazer will fail to become familiar with the constellations and fortunate is he whose introduction to the skies comes to him through nature's eyes alone and not through any telescope.
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Old telescopes never die, they are just laid away.
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So clear and sparkling is this autumn night that, with averted vision, I can see quite readily the wraithlike wisps of nebulosity that festoon and enmesh this entire little cluster.
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Leslie Peltier
Born:
January 2, 1900
Died:
May 10, 1980
(aged 80)
Bio:
Leslie Copus Peltier was an American amateur astronomer and discoverer of several comets and novae, once described as "the world's greatest non-professional astronomer" by Harlow Shapley.
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