What is it really like to use and is it really as good as it sounds in the reviews - it almost sounds too good to be true! However I've now owned this telescope since late June and I thought perhaps a 'Users Guide' may be of interest. These are both very thorough and in many ways tell you all you need to know. The first is by Dennis di Ciccco in the September 2011 edition of Sky & Telescope (yes, that is 2011!) Īnd the second by Ade Ashord in the May 2018 edition of Astronomy Now. There are two excellent reviews of this scope already which I urge people to read. Asteroid 3673 is named after him.I'm calling this a 'Users Guide' rather than a review for a good reason. He was also the recipient of four honorary doctoral degrees and is Honorary President of the Montreal and Kingston centres of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. In 1998, Levy also received an Emmy Award for co-writing the documentary Three minutes to impact for the Discovery Channel. Haas Award from the Association of Lunar & Planetary Observers in 1990 the Amateur Achievement Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1993 two Group Achievement awards from NASA in 19 the Simon Newcomb Award from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 2002 and the Benjamin Franklin Citizen Award from the Society for Amateur Scientists in 2003. Bruce Blair Award from the Western Amateur Astronomers and the Walter H. Peltier Award from the Astronomical League in 1988 the G. Barnard Award from the Western Amateur Astronomers and the Leslie C.
He has received more than 20 awards, including the Chant Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1980 the E. Over the years, he has developed numerous educational programs in astronomy for young people and the general public. Today, he is the discoverer or co-discoverer of 21 comets and more than 225 asteroids, including the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that crashed into Jupiter in 1994.Īuthor or editor of more than thirty books, numerous articles and more than 1,000 lectures and interviews, Levy is also involved with a number of magazines: he is Science Editor of Parade (USA), Associate Editor of Sky & Telescope (USA), and a regular contributor to SkyNews (Canada). In 1984, after 19 years of fruitless searching, he discovered his first comet. By the end of the 1980’s, he was the most prolific observer in the American Association of Variable Star Observers with more than 10,000 observations per year for meteors, variable stars and Messier objects.Īlways looking for a better climate and a darker sky, he moved to Arizona in 1980 where he still lives today. In 1965, he began to search for novae and comets in the sky. Levy’s interest in astronomy began during a partial eclipse of the Sun in 1959 at the age of 11. He is currently writing his doctoral degree at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, still on the subject of English literature. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1972 from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and his master’s degree in 1979 from the University of Queen’s in Kingston, Ontario. Davy Howard Levy was born in 1948 at Montréal, Quebec.
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