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Concerning the Creator:

Award-winning reporter and editor Dave Adalian’s love affair with the cosmos started throughout a long-ago summer season faculty journey to the storied and venerable Lick Observatory atop California’s Mount Hamilton, east of San Jose within the foggy Diablos Mountain Vary and much above Monterey Bay on the fringe of the limitless blue Pacific Ocean. That discipline journey goes on immediately, as Dave nonetheless pursues his nocturnal adventures, perched within the darkness at his telescope’s eyepiece or chasing wandering stars by the fields of evening as a naked-eye observer.

A lifelong resident of California’s Tulare County – an agricultural paradise the place the Nice San Joaquin Valley meets the Sierra Nevada in limitless miles of grass-covered foothills – Dave grew up in a wilderness bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island mixed, one choked with the best variety of wildlife within the US, one which passes its nights beneath pitch black skies rising over the a few of highest mountain peaks and best roadless areas on the North American continent.

Dave studied English, American literature and mass communications on the Faculty of the Sequoias and the College of California, Santa Barbara. He has labored as a reporter and editor for plenty of information publications on- and offline throughout a profession spanning almost 30 years up to now. His fondest literary hope is to share his ardour for astronomy and all issues cosmic with anybody who needs to hitch within the journey and discover the universe’s previous, current and future.