Tom Burns - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

I've been writing a weekly astronomy and stargazing column since 1988. I have taught writing courses in the Department of English at Ohio Wesleyan University since 1984. I was Director of Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory from 1993 - 2018.

Content

Total articles 249

• My old man’s opera glasses

  By Tom Burns| Delaware Gazette Verified By Tom BurnsStargazingI am, by nature, an early riser. My internal alarm goes off at 5 a.m. whether I want it to or not. That tendency was a real problem in my younger days. Often, I would stay up all night observing the stars with some hastily slapped-together telescope of my own devising. After a long, exhausting night, I might slide into home base at about that time. Ah, how blissful an hour or two of coma-like sleep would have felt before sitting zombie-like in my morning classes.

  By Tom Burns · Delaware Gazette

  Feb. 22, 2023

• Seven Sisters: Past, present, and future

  By Tom Burns, Joshua Keeran Verified| Delaware Gazette Verified By Tom Burns - StargazingWe denizens of the 21st century tend to look at the sky with a scientific eye, and, of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. We know the stars are giant hydrogen bombs. We see the constellations as helpful conveniences to make the sky less confusing. We are beginning to forget that humans used to tell stories about the stars — that our relationship with the starry vault was once personal and not pedantic.

  By Tom Burns, Joshua Keeran Verified · Delaware Gazette

  Jan. 24, 2023

• My old man’s opera glasses

  By Tom Burns| Delaware Gazette Verified By Tom BurnsStargazingI am, by nature, an early riser. My internal alarm goes off at 5 a.m. whether I want it to or not. That tendency was a real problem in my younger days. Often, I would stay up all night observing the stars with some hastily slapped-together telescope of my own devising. After a long, exhausting night, I might slide into home base at about that time. Ah, how blissful an hour or two of coma-like sleep would have felt before sitting zombie-like in my morning classes.

  By Tom Burns · Delaware Gazette

  Feb. 22, 2023

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