Taking astronomy to the people
Life of an outreach educator is a hectic one
N
ever in a million years would I have
GUEST
expected to find myself in a place
where I would ever be considered a
COLUMN
pioneer or trend-setter of any sort. Amazingly
it is all astronomical – in the literal sense of
the word.
More than a decade ago I looked at the
Full Moon through a 4” Orion telescope at
the Lowell Observatory and knew I would
never be the same. My husband and I left
the observatory with that same telescope,
which he had reluctantly purchased for me
and said, “We are never going to do anything
by Peggy
with that.” Now, thirteen year