John Dobson, a former monk, trundled his homemade telescope on wheels around San Francisco streets for decades, inviting nighttime strollers to look at the skies. He was a tireless missionary for ...

John Dobson, a former monk and self-taught stargazer who developed a powerful, inexpensive telescope that almost anyone could build and showed thousands how to do it during five decades as one of ...

John Dobson leads a group of amateur astronomers in discussion and gives points on how to make their own telescopes, called Dobsonian telescopes, on Feb. 13, 1999.

Dobson makes it a point to take a telescope to a public place as often as the weather allows. In the parking lot, Dobson seems more at ease.

Dobson claims he didn't invent the sidewalk telescope, as he had lots of help with his early prototypes. However, Dobson did choose to promote his sidewalk telescopes at the cost of his longtime home.

Dobson and his crew later loaded an old school bus with big telescopes and toured the national parks, deploying Long Eye, Little One, Psychedelic Zebra and the 24-inch behemoth, Delphinium.

NEW YORK — Hour after hour, night after night, decade after decade, all across planet Earth, John Lowry Dobson rolled his homemade telescopes to street corners and national parks to show people ...

In fact, among amateur telescopes, I don't think I have seen many telescopes over 35 centimeters aperture that are not of the Dobsonian design. Sadly, John Dobson passed away last month on Jan. 15 ...

A novel suitcase-sized telescope could revolutionise the way we see the Earth and other planets. ESA has supported the work of a group of students in developing the Dobson Space Telescope, being ...

The Dobsonian, John Dobson’s sidewalk telescope mount design more commonly referred to as a Dob, has evolved significantly since its first commercial introduction in the 1980s.

Dobson's design led to telescopes that amateur astronomers 10-15 years ago could not even dream of," Sergert said. "This is what we would like to do in space." ...