Writing the Same Book Over Almost Sixty Years: A Record of a Nightwatchman’s Journey Under the Night Sky
** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall ** David H. Levy, astronomer and author Since David Levy accidently happened to see a shooting star during the summer of 1956, he has kept an observing record, or log. Session number one was a partial eclipse of the Sun on October 2, 1959, but the log includes earlier sessions stretching back to July 4, 1956, and forward to well over eighteen thousand sessions. His record includes the comets, eclipses, exploding suns, and especially the friendships that have come from so many years of skywatching. In this lecture, with slides and music, Mr. Levy shares some of these experiences as he prepares to hand over the observing logs to the Linda Hall Library. Video produced by The VideoWorks of Roeland Park, Kansas.
