What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.
Clyde TombaughAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 4, 1906
- Died: January 17, 1997
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