Carolyn Collins Petersen

Sixty Years and Counting Participants on Sky Telescope's tour to Africa for the June 21st total solar eclipse witnessed an unusually lengthy and lustrous "diamond ring" as the last bead of sunlight slipped behind the Moon. How appropriate, as this year marks the diamond anniversary of Sky ...

FOCAL POINTIs an Astronomy Degree Useful?IF THE CLASS of 1978 from University College London is typical, graduates with degrees in astronomy do well in a variety of fields even astronomy.I suspect that, like me, all the fresh young faces entering that august institution in 1975 planning to study...