Dennis Webb by Day and Night Photos by Jeff Rowe at the Texas Star Party 2006 Dennis Webb Amateur Astronomer, Writer, and Lecturer Buy this book! The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies A Chronicle and Observer's Guide by Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb published by Willmann-Bell View sample pages and purcha...

BECOMING A BETTER ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVER During my first year as an observer, I learning through a lot of reading, many observing sessions (with a wide range of success and failure) and help and advice from astronomical friends. During this time I have improved my skills and I would like to share wha...

Resume for Dennis J. Webb Dennis J. Webb is an experienced and entertaining public speaker, writer and practicing amateur astronomer. He is available for speaking engagements, panel discussions, writing assignments, distance learning events, and related activities. Astronomical Lectures Origin and S...

The Big Idea:To Touch the Light of Faraway Planets by Dennis Webb I want to see faraway inhabited planets but the laws of physics prevent me. I look anyway. We look with our eyes. We see with our minds. The mind's wonder comes from its belief that the eye's soft smudges are the universe's galaxies. ...

The Big Idea | Calculations | The Institute | Demonstration Every hour of the day or night, light from close stars and distant galaxies rains down on the earth. This light is a tiny fraction of the light that comes from the sun but it is there all the same. A tiny fraction of this special light was ...