Make Time for the Stars Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life
Make Time for the Stars: Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life Antony Cooke Hungry for an opportunity to study the stars but have little or no time to do it? Then this book is for you! Perhaps you have a telescope from years ago, which you used a few time
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Make Time for the Stars
Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life Antony Cooke
Antony Cooke Capistrano Beach, CA
ISBN 978-0-387-89340-2 e-ISBN 978-0-387-89341-9 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89341-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to my mother, Margot Cooke, with love and appreciation for the encouragement, freedom, and opportunities she provided so that I could make the most of everything meaningful to me.
About the Author
It has often been said that music and astronomy go hand in hand. Antony Cooke’s passion for both fields were clear very early in his life, but music ultimately would claim his career. A cellist of international renown, Cooke has been one of the leading players in the Hollywood recording industry for many years, having been Associate Professor of Cello at Northwestern University in Chicago until 1984. A US citizen but born in Australia and educated in London, he received artist diplomas from the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music. During this time he was a recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Gold Medal at the London Music Festival. Becoming England’s youngest principal cellist (London Mozart Players), his career grew as international soloist, solo recording artist, university professor, and published composer, including for prime time television. The dual nature of Cooke’s interests continued, astronomy remaining the counterbalance in his life. Always looking for ways to improve his experience at the eyepiece, he has constructed many telescopes over the years, with increasing sizes being the hallmark of his often quirky designs. With limited time becoming an increasing factor, and with simplicity in mind, Cooke made the conscious choice not to be a slave to the new directions of mainstream amateur astronomy. Blending some of the best that modern technology has to offer with the careful choice of portable equipment, Cooke’s somewhat unorthodox approach, developed over the course of his lifetime, has proved to be his best solution. Make Time for the Stars is Antony Cooke’s third book on astronomy,
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