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[scliff.livejournal.com]

Can't find any good links, and the Wikipedia page is lame, but given your prior interests, I suspect it's the site of the backyard observatory mentioned here: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/centcat/fac/facch04_01.html