Star Trails 50 Favorite Columns from Sky and Telescope

Name: Star Trails 50 Favorite Columns from Sky and Telescope
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ISBN: 9781931559461

ISBN-10: 1931559465

ISBN-13: 9781931559461

Edition: 2007

Authors: David H. Levy

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David Levy's "Star Trails" column has appeared monthly in Sky & Telescope since January 1988. Initially conceived as "On the Road with David Levy," the column evolved over the years but has lately returned to its original goal: a personal, David Levy-style introduction to the hobby of astronomy.

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

David H Levy is an astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, which collided with Jupiter in 1994.



Preface


Ideas


Starting Over


Accidents at the Telescope


The Third Star


Cole of Spyglass Mountain


A Starlight Night


Telescopes for Telethon


A Marriage of Science and Art


The Last Hour


The New Age of CCD Observing


In the Footsteps of Giants


Don't Let It Get to You


Earth Strikes Back


Four Decades of Comet Hunting


People


Uncaged Spirit


A Toast to friends, Present and Absent


Something Old, Something New


Four Decades of Stellafane


The Man on the Moon


An Observer for All Seasons


Letter to my Granddaughter


Skyward Bound


Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of the Cosmos


The Street-Corner Astronomer


The Comet Master


Tsutomu Seki and the Great Comet of 1965


Places


The Real Unified Theory


A Central American Heaven


Crescent City Astronomers


A Peak Experience


Miracle at Birr Castle


Observing Earth


A Voyage to Remember


Things


Two on a Tower


Tombaugh's Star


Tombaugh's Telescopes


My First Telescope


A Sonnet for Columbia's Seven


Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescopes


Further Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescopes


Objects and Events


A Sunrise Total Eclipse


Meteor Nights


A Perfect Storm


Red Lights in the Sky


A Tale of Two Eclipses


A Not-So-Transitory Success


Seeing Einstein's Gravity Lens


In Praise of Penumbral Eclipses


A Ringside Seat


My First Meteor


What is a Planet?


Index


Acknowledgements


Image Credits