InhaltsangabeFrom the Contents: The Eye of the Moon.- Don't Look! - The Sun.- The Ways Stars Work - Ursa Major.- What Galileo Saw - The Moons of Jupiter.- Orion's Five - The Types of Stars.- The Little Cloud - Andromeda.- The Joy of Red - Getting to Know Mars.- Orion and its Nebula - Suns Present and Suns Future.- Bright Dog of the Night - Sirius.- Looking for Footsteps.- The River in the Sky - Eriidanus.- Saturn - Falling in Love.- Algol - Splitting the Demon Star.- Comets, Asteroids, and Meteorites - Where everything comes from.- Uranus - Strange, or what?.- Hubble V1 - How it destroyed a Universe.

Dr. Marett-Crosby obtained both an MA and PhD from the university of Oxford. After working as a pastoral counselor in academia and in the UK prison service (as a counselor and educator), he became, in 2005, a full-time writer working from his home on the channel island of Jersey. His published books include The Conversion of England (Abbey Press 1998);  the majority of Doing Business with Benedict (Continuum 2002). His most recent project is a novel, Two Thirds Man, which is currently with agents. Parts of this novel have already won national short story prizes. He speaks and writes on astronomical subjects, and believes practical astronomy is important in building bridges between science and the liberal arts.  A lifelong student of astronomy, he has been an enthusiastic amateur astronomer for most of his life, and is fortunate to be able to view the night sky from the enviable viewpoint of the UK's southernmost outpost.