Complex sentence: Hodge taught at Santa Monica College and served as the director (1976--2005) of the Santa Monica College Planetarium (now Drescher Planetarium), following an earlier period as a regular lecturer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.
Split into simpler sentences: Hodge taught at Santa Monica College and served as the director (1976--2005) of the Santa Monica College Planetarium (now Drescher Planetarium). Before going to Santa Monica, Hodge was a regular lecturer at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles.