David H. Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets

David Levy has discovered 21 comets, eight of them using his own backyard telescopes. In collaboration with Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker, he discovered Shoemaker-Levy 9, the comet that collided with Jupiter in 1994, producing one of the most spectacular explosions ever witnessed in the solar system. He is a contributing editor for Sky and Telescope magazine, Science Editor for Parade magazine, and is the author or editor of twenty-nine books. He won an Emmy in 1998 as part of the writing team for the Discovery Channel documentary, 'Three Minutes to Impact.' He and his wife Wendee are currently involved with the Shoemaker-Levy Double Cometograph comet search program, based at the Jarnac Observatory in ArizonaLevy, David is the author of 'David H. Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets' with ISBN 9780521520515 and ISBN 0521520517.