Douglas Isbell is the United States national contact for the International Year of Astronomy 2009, and a professional astronomy and space communicator. He has more than two decades of experience at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and NASA. Stephen E. Strom is Astronomer Emeritus at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. An accomplished photographer as well as an astronomer, Strom has provided photographs for three previous University of Arizona Press books: Secrets from the Center of the World, Sonoita Plain, and Tséyi'/Deep in the Rock.