Richard Bartlett is not a professional writer. He has been interested in astronomy since age six (he is now 43).In the late 90’s Mr Bartlett had an astronomy website called StarLore, the aim of which was to detail the constellations and provide pages for the stars and deep sky objects you could find there. Each page contained some background info on the constellation or object about which he was writing. It was designed to be an online reference point for anyone wanting to know more. He created it because I couldn’t find anything like it online.
That was in 1998. In late 2000, Stuart Goldman from Sky & Telescope contacted Mr Bartlett to say he’d like to feature StarLore as being one of the best amateur websites online. That was published in January or February 2001. Astronomy magazine wasn’t reviewing websites or software at the time so he emailed them, told them about the site and pretty much asked for the job. He got it, and within a week was writing a monthly column – Webweaver Picks.This ran for about 2 1/2 years before it was cut due to budget restraints.
Unfortunately, StarLore also fell by the wayside because it was a lot of work, but about three or four years ago Mr Bartlett created anspace news website, AstroNews, which can be found at astronewsus.wordpress.com (I’ll be promoting the book there too.) There is a Facebook page associated with the web site.
Bartlett wrote this book because there wasn’t anything like it available.
To commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 2015 An Astronomical Year is now available as a free download between July 20th and July 24th.
This comprehensive, quick reference guide provides nearly 300 pages of night sky events for 2015, including many that are easily visible with just the naked eye.
To download your copy, go to:
(US) http://www.amazon.com/2015-Astronomical-Year-Reference-Astronomy-ebook/dp/B00LVEUJI2
(UK) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LVEUJI2
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Thank you very much sir! I appreciate it 🙂
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Richard is very knowledgeable, a good writer, and also a very nice guy! Looking forward to checking out his book. 🙂
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