07-May-2008, 06:03 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Springfield, Illinois, USA
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Local Club Gets a Nice Boost
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/29907.asp
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New point of view for Chick Lanphier's telescope
Observatory to be dedicated near Pleasant Plains
By AMANDA REAVY
STAFF WRITER
Published Wednesday, May 07, 2008
PLEASANT PLAINS — A 1960s-era custom-built telescope and dome donated by the Lanphier family to a local astronomy group have been transplanted and revitalized into a new observatory. The C.H. Lanphier Observatory — named for the late Charles “Chick” Lanphier III, a Springfield business and civic leader who had the telescope built — will be dedicated Saturday. . .
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