Robert Berman — known as Bob Berman — is an American astronomer and science popularizer. He is an author and the most widely read astronomer in the world. He is director of the Storm King Observatory in Cornwall, New York and of the Overlook Observatory in Woodstock, New York, USA. He is an adjunct professor of astronomy at Marymount Manhattan College and has appeared on CBS This Morning, the Today Show, and Late Night with David Letterman.
Biography
In 1976, Berman founded the Catskill Astronomical Society. Beginning in 1988, he has run the summer astronomy program at Yellowstone National Park (most years). He was the "Sky Lights" and "Night Watchman" astronomy columnist for Discover from 1989 to 2006. He is currently Astronomy Magazine's "Strange Universe" columnist. He is also responsible for the astronomy section of The Old Farmer's Almanac. He has lead aurora and eclipse expeditions as far away as the Arctic and Antarctic.
Berman conducts a weekly radio broadcast, "Skywindow", and a monthly, hour-long call-in show on Northeast Public Radio.
Berman is author of Secrets of the Night Sky: The Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See With the Naked Eye (1995; William Morrow & Co) among other books.
Works
- Berman, Bob, Cosmic Adventure: A Renegade Astronomer's Guide to Our World and Beyond (1998, Morrow)
- Berman, Bob, Strange Universe (2003, Henry Holt, Times Books)
- Berman, Bob, Secrets of the Night Sky: The Most Amazing Things in the Universe You Can See with the Naked Eye (1995, Morrow) (Paperback: 1995 HarperCollins)
- Berman, Bob, Shooting for the Moon (2007, Lyons Press)
- Lanza, Robert and Berman, Bob (2009), Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe, BenBella; ISBN 978-1933771694.
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