A personal astronomy book by Dean Gustafson, 2021-22, with the tentative working title of:
15 chapters total, are here in PDF format, and linked separately below.
Enjoy reading this labor of love! Not only written to record my personal history, but to enthuse whoever may be interested in astronomy.
Typed by using eye tracking technology, with a Tobii Dynavox.
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Chapter Two. Development. "The sky is my TV"
Chapter Three. Artworks and a total eclipse!
Chapter Four. The road to 2001
Chapter Five. Turning points. Telescope building in Marin
Chapter Six. John Dobson classes
Chapter Seven. Expansion of views. Have telescope, will travel
Chapter Eight. Dobson's cosmology
Chapter Nine. A chapter of artwork
Chapter Ten. West coast astronomy
Chapter Twelve. Grand celestial tours.
Chapter Thirteen "...To f***ing Andromeda and back"
Chapter Fourteen. Curtain calls.
Chapter Fifteen. Afterword : Why a book?
Two-page illustration : sidewalk astronomy
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