Bob P. King

Bob grew up in the Chicago suburb Morton Grove, Illinois, and expressed a strong interest in astronomy since he was a boy. He joined the Chicago Astronomical Society and gave presentations there. He graduated with a teaching degree in the German language at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Bob moved to Duluth, Minnesota in 1979 to become a photographer for the Duluth News Tribune and became a photo editor in 1990. The darker skies of Duluth helped him renew his interest in astronomy, and he enjoyed the challenge in finding comets. He taught community education astronomy classes at the University of Minnesota Duluth and Marshall Alworth Planetarium since 1992 and astronomy classes at Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center since 2011.

Bob started his blog http://astrobob.areavoices.com in 2008 to share knowledge on astronomy events and discoveries from NASA. His articles have also been published online with Sky & Telescope and Universe Today.

He published his first book Night Sky With the Naked Eye in 2016. Emily Lakdawalla of The Planetary Society reviewed the book, and appreciated the chapers on finding the natural satellites, and said the book clarified a lot of questions about the night sky.

• Bob King, Night Sky With the Naked Eye: How to Find Planets, Constellations, Satellites and Other Night Sky Wonders Without a Telescope, 2016, ISBN 978-1624143090