Sky & Telescope magazine, founded in 1941 by Charles A. Federer Jr. and Helen Spence Federer, has the most experienced staff of any astronomy magazine in the world. Its editors are virtually all amateur or professional astronomers, and every one has built a telescope, written a book, done original research, developed a new product, or otherwise distinguished him or herself. Several of S&T's editors over the years have been honored by the world's astronomers by having asteroids named after them, and our designers and artists have had their extraordinary talents recognized by their peers in the magazine-publishing industry.
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Editorial
Interim Publisher
Joel Parriott
Editor in Chief
Diana Hannikainen
Senior Editors
Sean Walker
Science Editor
Camille Carlisle
News Editor
Monica Young
Associate Editors
Edwin L. Aguirre
Meg Thacher
Editorial Assistant
Sabrina Garvin
Art & Design
Creative Director
Terri Dubé
Technical Illustrator
Beatriz Inglessis
Illustrator
Leah Tiscione
Contributors
Senior Contributing Editors
J. Kelly Beatty
Dennis di Cicco
Richard Tresch Fienberg
Alan M. MacRobert
Gary Seronik
Roger W. Sinnott
Contributing Editors
Howard Banich
Javier Barbuzano
Jim Bell
Trudy Bell
Ronald Brecher
Greg Bryant
Ken Croswell
Thomas A. Dobbins
Alan Dyer
Tony Flanders
Ted Forte
Steve Gottlieb
Shannon Hall
Scott Harrington
Ken Hewitt-White
Bob King
Emily Lakdawalla
Rod Mollise
James Mullaney
Stephen James O’Meara
Donald W. Olson
Jerry Oltion
Joe Rao
Fred Schaaf
Govert Schilling
William Sheehan
Brian Ventrudo
Mathew Wedel
Charles A. Wood
Richard S. Wright, Jr.
Contributing Photographers
P. K. Chen
Robert Gendler
Babak Tafreshi
Advertising
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Rod Nenner
American Astronomical Society
Interim CEO, AAS Sky Publishing, LLC
Joel Parriott
President
Dara Norman, NOIRLab
Senior Vice-President
Dawn Gelino, NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program, JPL
Second Vice-President
Edwin (Ted) Bergin, University of Michigan
Third Vice-President
Alycia Weinberger, Carnegie Institution for Science
Treasurer (on leave January 2024 to January 2025)
Nicole van der Bliek, NOIRLab
Secretary
Stephen Unwin, JPL
At-Large Trustees
Lisa Prato, Lowell Observatory
Daniel Dale, University of Wyoming
Gregory Rudnick, The University of Kansas
Seth Redfield, Wesleyan University
