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Many amateur astronomers are very familiar with Al Nagler's amazing eye pieces and TeleVue optics but he was also instrumental in designing the optics for Gemini and Apollo program training simulators.

Nagler died on Monday (Oct. 27) at the age of 90.

Here he discusses his work:

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