JOHN DOBSON AND TELESCOPE BUILDING

Having invented the Dobsonian telescope, amateur astronomer John Dobson shared the steps to build your own in the 1992 film Telescope Building with John Dobson, which is now available on YouTube. In just 90 minutes, you too can learn to create the original sidewalk astronomer’s invention. Dobson inspired amateur astronomers around the globe by making the activity more accessible via the portable, easyto-use device he created. Before his death in 2014, Dobson made it his life's work to travel the country and conduct public lectures and stargazing performances that were deemed “sidewalk astronomy.” Jackson’s own “telescope guy” Samuel Singer says of his work through Wyoming Stargazing, “I definitely consider myself part of his ongoing legacy.”