Alan M. MacRobert

^ Dark Days for Dark Nightshe editors of Sky Telescope, and quite a few of our other staffers too, are stargazers, telescope makers, researchers, and/or astrophotographers. Because we love astronomy, and because we love sharing it with others, we feel that one of our roles at the magazine is to...

FOCAL POINTThe Amateur Astronomer's "Vast Alliances"IN HIS JOURNAL for 1851, Henry David Thoreau recorded an event so slight that few people would have bothered to write it down. As he lay on his back under the night sky, he saw a star pass behind the stem of a tree, proving that the Earth moves,...