A personal astronomy book by Dean Gustafson, 2021-22, with the tentative working title of:

From The Sidewalk To The Stars

An astronomy enthusiasts adventures, and how I got into it.

15 chapters total, are here in PDF format, and linked separately below.
Enjoy reading this labor of love! Typed by using eye tracking technology, with a Tobii Dynavox.
*** some browsers mysteriously warn that the PDF links are "unsafe", but they're okay!

Preface and Chapter One

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 Eleven. Embarcations.

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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