Star Trails 50 Favorite Columns from Sky & Telescope

by Levy, David H.

• ISBN13: 9781931559461
• ISBN10: 1931559465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Sky Publishing

Summary

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.

Author Biography

David H. Levy, one of the foremost amateur astronomers in the United States

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
Ideas
Starting Over	p. 10
Accidents at the Telescope	p. 12
The Third Star	p. 15
Cole of Spyglass Mountain	p. 17
A Starlight Night	p. 20
Telescopes for Telethon	p. 22
A Marriage of Science and Art	p. 25
The Last Hour	p. 28
The New Age of CCD Observing	p. 31
In the Footsteps of Giants	p. 34
Don't Let It Get to You	p. 38
Earth Strikes Back	p. 40
Four Decades of Comet Hunting	p. 42
People
Uncaged Spirit	p. 46
A Toast to friends, Present and Absent	p. 49
Something Old, Something New	p. 52
Four Decades of Stellafane	p. 54
The Man on the Moon	p. 57
An Observer for All Seasons	p. 60
Letter to my Granddaughter	p. 64
Skyward Bound	p. 66
Arthur C. Clarke's Vision of the Cosmos	p. 69
The Street-Corner Astronomer	p. 73
The Comet Master	p. 76
Tsutomu Seki and the Great Comet of 1965	p. 80
Places
The Real Unified Theory	p. 84
A Central American Heaven	p. 87
Crescent City Astronomers	p. 89
A Peak Experience	p. 91
Miracle at Birr Castle	p. 94
Observing Earth	p. 96
A Voyage to Remember	p. 98
Things
Two on a Tower	p. 102
Tombaugh's Star	p. 104
Tombaugh's Telescopes	p. 107
My First Telescope	p. 109
A Sonnet for Columbia's Seven	p. 112
Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescopes	p. 115
Further Adventures with Mr. Schmidt's Telescopes	p. 118
Objects and Events
A Sunrise Total Eclipse	p. 122
Meteor Nights	p. 125
A Perfect Storm	p. 128
Red Lights in the Sky	p. 130
A Tale of Two Eclipses	p. 133
A Not-So-Transitory Success	p. 135
Seeing Einstein's Gravity Lens	p. 138
In Praise of Penumbral Eclipses	p. 140
A Ringside Seat	p. 143
My First Meteor	p. 145
What is a Planet?	p. 147
Index	p. 150
Acknowledgements	p. 152
Image Credits	p. 152
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