BA Sidewalk Astronomer

BA Sidewalk Astronomer BASWA builds equipment, tools and educational resources to introduce the handicapped and general public to the beauty and science of our universe.

I have more than once heard persons who knew nothing about the stars, and probably cared less, utter exclamations of surprise and delight when persuaded to look at certain parts of the sky with a good glass, and thereafter manifest an interest in astronomy of which they would formerly have believed themselves incapable. Garrett Putnam Serviss - 1888 "Astronomy with an Opera-Glass"

09/09/2026
09/09/2026

The Sun belongs to a rare class of stars — class G — yellow stars that are in the middle of the stellar temperature scale.

Details on G stars, plus a “lemon” planet, a vanishing red eye, and much more, this week — on StarDate!
https://stardate.org/podcast/2026-09-08

09/09/2026

Here is some beginning progress on the repainting of the Astronomy Club of Tulsa observatory sign

09/08/2026

Working with Astronomy Club of Tulsa

09/08/2026

Jupiter stands close below the Moon at dawn tomorrow. The solar system’s largest planet looks like a brilliant star, outshining everything in the night sky except the Moon and Venus.

09/07/2026

A Useful Tool for Public Speaking

Astro Quotes to Remember

Reciting a pithy quote is a great tool when communicating astronomy concepts to the public. Plus, they often make you seem smart even if that is not really the case. Quote wisely.

Plato. "Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

Isaac Newton, 1675. "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Simon Newcomb, astronomer and astronomy popularizer, 1888. "We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."

Brian May. "Astronomy is much more fun when you're not an astronomer."

Carl Sagan, via journalist Sharon Begley, 1977. "Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be discovered."

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, "I am constant as the northern star."

Christiaan Huygens. "Believe anything very certainly, but everything very probably."

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Bohemia, "You see but do not observe."

Heraclitus. "No one can step in the same river twice."

Enrico Fermi, 1950, referring to the likelihood of intelligent extraterrestrial life, "Where is everybody."

Yogi Berra. "It gets late early out there."

Neil deGrasse Tyson. "The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980. "We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

Garrett Serviss, Astronomy with an Opera Glass, 1888. "Always avoid the neighborhood of any bright light. Electric lights in particular are an abomination to stargazers."

George E. Hale. "Make no small plans. Dream no small dreams."

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