Terence Dickinson is the best-selling author of Nightwatch and The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. More than one million of his previous titles are in print in three languages. He has received many national and international science awards including the New York Academy of Sciences Book of the Year Award and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Klumpke-Roberts Award for "excellence in communicating astronomy to the public." Previous recipients include Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov.
Jack Newton is considered one of the world's foremost non-professional astrophotographers. His portraits of celestial objects have appeared in every leading astronomy magazine in the world.