Fred reaching for the stars

By Jennie Curtin
Updated June 20 2017 - 10:32am, first published June 19 2017 - 3:58pm
Astronomer: Professor Fred Watson took the audience on a romp through space and the planets in a fundraiser last Saturday night. Photo by Mike Chirgwin.
Astronomer: Professor Fred Watson took the audience on a romp through space and the planets in a fundraiser last Saturday night. Photo by Mike Chirgwin.

Fred Watson, in a wide-ranging talk about things astronomical, showed his audience an illustration from a 1950s comic, with a rocket about to be fired and a man’s life about to be changed as a result.

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