Meet our Authors

Zane Landers

Zane Landers is an amateur astronomer and telescope maker from Arizona. Zane builds and regularly observes with Dobsonian telescopes as large as 40" in aperture, and grinds his own mirrors. Featured in major publications, he advocates for variable star observers and dark sky preservation.

Atakan Saracyakupoglu

Atakan Saracyakupoglu is a graduate student in astrophysics at Sabanci University, specializing in telescope simulations and technical analyses.