ONLINE – General Meeting – November 2021

TAAA’s next general member meeting will be held online, on Friday, November 5, 2021. The Main Presentation starts at 6:30 P.M. NON-MEMBERS may attend via Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/TucsonAstronomy/.                             MEMBERS should attend the meeting via Zoom.

6:30 pm – Main Presentation

Title:  David Levy’s two astronomy careers:  Rewards and Challenges

Presentation:  Over the course of the last 60 years, David Levy has followed two different paths to the night sky.  In his own words, “One is the observing, the search for comets, which includes the discoveries of 21 comets including Shoemaker-Levy 9.   The other relates the night sky to English Literature.  This lecture will cover the joys and the challenges of this double-pronged approach to the night sky, in which the first grabs my heart, and the second touches my soul.”

Presenter:  David Levy is arguably one of the most enthusiastic and famous amateur astronomers of our time.  Although he has never taken a class in astronomy, he has written over three dozen books, written for three astronomy magazines and appeared on television programs featured on the Discovery and the Science Channels.  Among David’s accomplishments are 23 comet discoveries, the most famous being Shoemaker-Levy 9 that collided with Jupiter in 1994, a few hundred shared asteroid discoveries, an Emmy for the documentary Three Minutes to Impact, five honorary doctorates in Science and a PhD which combines astronomy and English Literature.  Currently, he is the editor of the web magazine Sky’s Up!, and has a monthly column, Skyward, in the Vail Voice community newspaper. David continues to hunt for comets and asteroids, and lectures worldwide.