Bob Berman is the world’s most widely read astronomer. Author of 12 popular science books published by Harper, Little Brown, and Morrow, and numerous foreign editions, he is also, since 1988, the astronomy editor of the Old Farmers Almanac. He is also contributing editor and monthly columnist for Astronomy magazine. For 17 years, from 1989 – 2006, he was Discover magazine’s monthly Night Watchman columnist. He was a guest on numerous national TV shows, such as Today with Katie Couric, and Late Night with David Letterman. Listeners in seven states hear his weekly Skywindow program on the eight Northeast Public Radio stations during NPR's Weekend Edition. Berman founded the Catskill Astronomical Society in 1976, and is director of Overlook Observatory, near Woodstock, New York, and the Storm King Observatory at Cornwall, New York. He was adjunct professor of astronomy and physics at New York’s Marymount college from 1995-2000. For 13 years prior to that, Berman directed the summer astronomy program at Yellowstone Park for the National Park Service and Yellowstone Institute.