Alan B. Whiting

Alan Whiting has worked as a professional astronomer for decades and has observed the sky as an amateur for much longer. Educated at the U. S. Naval Academy and the University of Cambridge, he has used a sextant to navigate at sea and professional large telescopes to search for extremely faint galaxies. He is an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham (UK), where he does research into galaxies, cosmology and variable stars. Details of his research and explanations of various things may be found on his Birmingham website. His book "Hindsight and Popular Astronomy" was chosen by Physics World as one of the top ten books of 2011. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and tutors students in math and science part-time.