Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Crater Lake National Park oral history series, John Lowery Dobson Crater Lake National Park oral history series |
Creator | Hoffman, F. Owen |
Date | 2004 2010-04-16 2010-05-03 |
Subject | Dobson, John Lowery -- 1915 -; Oral history -- Oregon -- Crater Lake National Park; National parks and reserves; Astronomy; Crater Lake National Park (Oregon); |
Description | photo (color); "Interviewed by F. Owen Hoffman, July 31, 2004; transcribed by F. Owen Hoffman with editing from Stephen R. Mark, December 2005." - T.p. To the reader: During the Leonid meteor showers of November 2001 my wife and I camped above 5,000 feet, on top of Hooper's Bald in the Cherokee National Forest of North Carolina. The wonders of the night sky that evening changed something within me. I knew I had to begin to learn more about the stars and galaxies above. I began by reading beginners guides to the stars and planets and purchased my first astronomical binoculars. By February 2002,1 bought my first telescope, an eight... |
Source | Original document is: Crater Lake National Park oral history series, John Lowery Dobson ([Crater Lake, Or.]: [National Park Service, Crater Lake National Park], 2004); [iv], 14 p.: 29 cm. |
Contributor | [National Park Service, Crater Lake National Park] Mark, Stephen R.; United States. National Park Service |
Publisher | Oregon Institute of Technology. Library |
Relation | Digital reproduction of: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/610107933 Mode of access: Adobe Acrobat Reader |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf; PDF file size: 2,121,728 bytes Master file format: image/tiff; master file size: 807,874,560 bytes; bit depth: 24; color mode: color; resolution: 600 dpi; capture hardware: Fujitsu FI-4750C; optimization software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
Language | eng |
Rights | Digital image copyright 2010. Oregon Institute of Technology. All rights reserved. http://digitallib.oit.edu/cdm/copyright/collection/craterlake |
Identifier | CLNP-16-Apr-2010-306 http://digitallib.oit.edu/cdm/ref/collection/craterlake/id/309 |