Explorations Speaker Dan Benedict
Astro-journalist Dan Benedict describes himself as “a professional journalist and an amateur astronomer”. His interest in astronomy began in earnest one August night in 1960 when his father gathered the family in the front yard to watch America’s first successful communication satellite, Echo-1, travel overhead and disappear into Earth’s shadow. An award-winning photojournalist whose work has appeared on CBS Evening News, ABC’s World News Tonight, and Cable News Network, Dan has been affiliated with CNN’s New York bureau since 1985. In 1994 he also founded his own news agency, Eye on the Sky News Service, to bring astronomy news “down to Earth” to non- astronomers. It specializes in items of interest to the casual stargazer that can be easily seen with the unaided eye, such as the appearance of planets, bright stars and their constellations, satellites, meteor showers and eclipses.Dan has written astronomy articles for Porthole and Shipboard magazines and has a particular interest in astronomy aboard cruise ships. Dan writes a weekly astronomy column for The (Trenton, New Jersey) Times and is a volunteer for the National Science Foundation’s Project Astro-Nova, a program which places amateur and professional astronomers with school and youth groups, and is a member of Nantucket’s Maria Mitchell Association, a nature organization named after America’s first female astronomer of note.
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