Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes Practical Amateur Astronomy

Michael Covington, an avid amateur astronomer since age 12, has degrees in linguistics from Cambridge and Yale. He does research on computer processing of human languages at The University of Georgia, where his work won first prize in the IBM Supercomputing Competition in 1990. His current research and consulting areas include theoretical linguistics, natural language processing, logic programming, and microcontrollers. Although a computational linguist by profession, he is recognized as one of America's leading amateur astronomers and is highly regarded in the field. He is the author of several booksCovington, Michael A. is the author of 'Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes Practical Amateur Astronomy' with ISBN 9780521524193 and ISBN 0521524199.