Growing up under the clear night skies of the state of Georgia, in the south-east of the United States, I remember lying in the back of my dad’s pickup truck looking up at the constellations, and even from that very early age of nine or 10 there was just something so fundamental and wonderful about seeing the Moon and the stars that just clicked in me – it was so inspirational.
Then I got my first telescope, and began the methodical process of looking at a map of the night sky, going out and observing it myself. The challenge of finding planets and observing meteor showers – that was my
