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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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James Mullaney is an astronomy writer, lecturer and consultant who has published more than 500 articles and three books on observing the wonders of the heavens and logged over 20,000 hours of stargazing time with the unaided eye, binoculars and telescopes. Formerly Curator of the Buhl Planetarium & Institute of Popular Science in Pittsburgh and more recently Director of the DuPont Planetarium, he served as staff astronomer at the University of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Observatory, and as an editor for Sky & Telescope, Astronomy and Star & Sky magazines. One of the contributors to Carl Sagan’s award-winning Cosmos PBS-Television series, his work has received recognition from such notables as Sir Arthur Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Johnny Carson, Dr. Wernher von Braun, and former student - NASA scientist/astronaut Dr. Jay Apt. His 40-year mission as a “celestial evangelist” has been to Celebrate the Universe! - to get others to look up at the majesty of the night sky and personally experience the joys of stargazing.