'Seeing in the Dark': A Star-Studded Evening on PBS

People love to imbue their hobbies with sweeping universal significance. In "Seeing in the Dark," a one-hour film that airs tonight at 8 on PBS, Timothy Ferris presents an ode to the craft of stargazing: telling the story of how he fell in love with his telescope as a boy in the 1950s, of teenage...
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