See for yourself

See for yourself February 24, 2025I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the people who influenced me as an astronomical observer and as an astronomy writer. There are many, but two in particular stand out: Gary Seronik and Stephen James O’Meara. Both of them deserve longer, better writeups about the specific things they’ve done that have inspired me, but in this post I want to focus on a common thread that runs through both of them to me. Stephen James O’Meara’s Deep-Sky Companions books have...