Seeing in the Dark 
Subtitle: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: September 5, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780684865799
Subjects: Astronomy, Space & Time; Astrophysics; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Descriptive Astronomy; Science; Science/Mathematics; Star Observation; Astronomy - General; Astrophysics & Space Science; Science / General; Astronomy; Amateurs' manuals; Astronomers
First sentence: AT DAWN ON A DESERTED FLORIDA BEACH in 1954, the first rays of the Sun sent my father's long shadow and my shorter one rippling like kite tails across the rumpled sands.