David Ratledge

spectrumSteady As She GoesBI y coincidence this January 2001 issue of Sky Telescope is volume I 101, number 1, so we begin the new millennium (for real this time) I with our own special turn of the odometer. This doesn't mean ST is 100 years old, though. From 1941 through 1959 one volume did equal...

Reading Last Summerhis month's editorial may seem to be a book report, but it isn't. It's an appreciation to Allan Chapman for his recently published book, The Victorian Amateur Astronomer,* subtided Independent Astronomical Research in Britain 1820-1920. His was the best astronomy book on my...