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Bates College student Belle Bernhoeft, left, explains to Sumaya Bashir, 7, of Lewiston how a telescope works by demonstrating how the first ones moved two lenses back and forth to magnify and focus objects far away during Monday night's 3rd annual Bates Astronomy Extravaganza on the campus in Lewiston.

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