By David Levy About a year ago, in this column, I wrote about the final Adirondack Astronomy Retreat (AAR) that Wendee and I held in the Adirondack Mountains near Lewis, New York. We had a...
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Skyward – February 2024
Skyward This month I have a story to tell. A few nights ago two close friends from Plattsburgh, Ed Guenther and Wendy Gordon...
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Skyward for January 2024
Skyward: Star Gazing This month let us explore one of the seminal galaxies in the night sky, NGC 253, Caroline Herschel’s galaxy...
Read MorePons-Brooks: A comet for the centuries
When David Rossetter and I began our observing session at the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association’s Chiricahua Astronomy Complex...
Read MoreMeteors Scratch the Sky
Despite what you read online, it is possible to think of meteor watching as one of the most boring things you can do with the...
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Skyward: A Dog Star
By David Levy There are so many good reasons for acquiring an interest in the night sky. Mine wasn’t one of them. It turns out that I was extraordinarily shy as a child and had few...
Skyward: A Nightwatchman’s Journey: The Road not Taken
By David Levy On Friday, June 14, my latest book, my autobiography entitled A Nightwatchman’s Journey: The Road not Taken, was launched at the Royal Astronomical Society’s General Assembly...
Skyward: July ’19
By David Levy Of all the programs that Wendee and I enjoy watching on our television set, the game show Jeopardy is one of our favorites. For a half hour each day, Wendee and I play along...
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By David Levy As the world prepared for war in 1939, a group of physicists was studying how to reproduce the behavior of a star on Earth: To split an atom, either quietly to provide a...
Introducing Astronomy to Young Students
By David Levy During our monthly star nights at our neighborhood Corona Foothills Middle School, I sit down on a chair near the telescope to assist with the observing. The students...
Skyward: I Love Comets
By David H. Levy If you have read this column more than once, you probably are not too surprised to understand that I love comets. Comets are a part of me, a part of who I am. But I had to...
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by David H. Levy For those of us who were alive back then, where were you on Christmas Eve, in the year 1968? I remember exactly where I was. Sitting in front of my family’s television...
Inner Starlight by David H. Levy
By Article Author In 1994, Star Trek: The Next Generation was one of the most popular shows on television. The episodes were so good that it was easy to tell that the cast was especially...
Fascination with Comets
More than two thousand years ago, getting loose change was about as easy as it is today. Hand a shopkeeper a silver dollar in today’s world, and you can expect four quarters in change. What...