John Jardine Gross
John Jardine Goss is president of the Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Astronomical Society, and past president of the Astronomical League, the nation’s largest federation of astronomical societies. He has earned the title of Master Observer from the Astronomical League and has authored a book, “Exploring the Starry Realm.” He also writes a monthly stargazing column for the Roanoke Times. He and his wife, Genevieve, reside near Fincastle, Virginia, and are members of the International Dark-Sky Association.
“… I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
—from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
John Jardine Gross
John Jardine Goss is president of the Roanoke Valley (Virginia) Astronomical Society, and past president of the Astronomical League, the nation’s largest federation of astronomical societies. He has earned the title of Master Observer from the Astronomical League and has authored a book, “Exploring the Starry Realm.” He also writes a monthly stargazing column for the Roanoke Times. He and his wife, Genevieve, reside near Fincastle, Virginia, and are members of the International Dark-Sky Association.
“… I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.”
—from “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman
