Our RASC Montreal Centre Honourary President David Levy has received an outstanding review by the Globe and Mail. The article profiles Dr Levy’s start in astronomy, his successes as a comet hunter, and his online observation archive now available at RASC National.
His is a life spent pressed to a telescope eyepiece, at hours when most people are sanely asleep, in thrall to the mysteries in the darkened vault above. And now, his entire observation archive has been posted online by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, the first such recognition for any Canadian astronomer.
“If you don’t write it down then you’re not observing,” Mr. Levy said from his home near Tucson this week, after coming in from his backyard observatory to prepare entry No. 16,449 in his logbook.
“This,” he says of his 23-volume archive, “just gives a sense of what one man’s passion has led to, session by session, night by night.”
Read the entire article here.
