Hi Chuck, Dan, and Howard,
I enjoyed Fred Schaaf's observing articles, he has a new book that was published a few months ago. "The Brightest Stars: Discovering the Universe through the Sky's Most Brilliant Stars" I remember the Magazine "Deep Sky", they published it for about 4 years, it was all about deep sky observing with a little advertising. They covered all the constellations with several articles dedicated to objects available to small scopes. Seemed like they ran out of original articles and stopped publishing. They were too specialized. Brian Skiff wrote a lot of their articles. Their back issues are good observing aides. I think O'meara has put his eggs into the "Astronomy" basket, as far as his writing goes. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=ss&id=160 Sky&Tele has been reorganizing (down sizing) for a few years. You do have to wonder if they will survive. They have so many years of traditions, it would be sad to see them go. I also remember the "ATM Journal" that was dedicated to Amateur Telescope Making. They tried to make it online for a while but quickly stopped publishing. The best ATM projects were combined for 2 volumes. Anybody interested in ATM will find them interesting. They can be purchased from William&Bell: http://www.willbell.com/tm/batmj/index.htm Riverside used to publish a journal highlighting ATM projects entered in Riverside Telescope Makers Convention. I have not been to Riverside for a few years so I don't know if they still do. I suspect not, perhaps a yard marker for the decline in ATMer's. BTW, today, feb 12, Neptune is at conjunction with the Sun and tomorrow, feb 13, Mercury is at greatest elongation. Erik Small consolation, Levy is at least blogging for them:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/davidlevy
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:12 PM, daniel turner <outwest112@yahoo.com>
wrote:
David Levy is gone as well as Stuart Goldman.
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