Congrats to Mark McMarthy!

[Steve Gottlieb]

Mark has a feature article titled “A Tour of Short-Period Binary Stars" in the just released April issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.

If you’re not aware, Mark is a master observer of close double stars!

Steve

[Richard Navarrete]

Way to go , Mark! Congratulations.

Richard

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[Akarsh Simha]

Big congratulations, McMark! This is great, we now have at least four Sky & Tel authors who are TACos. Did I miss someone?

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Akarsh

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[Steve Gottlieb]

Sorry for mangling his name, it’s Mark McCarthy, or sometimes McMark when there’s too many Mark’s around. 

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On Feb 20, 2026, at 9:35 AM, 'Richard Navarrete' via The Astronomy Connection (TAC) <sf-ba...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 Way to go , Mark! Congratulations.

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[Ted Hauter]

Does it say in the article what scope and eyepiece for this work?

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[Dan Aguilar]

Articles written by our volunteers and docents would make great content for our website if they’re not prevented from posting by the publishers.

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Thanks for the recognition!  Nice to see it in the magazine.  I'm sure I've posted many of the observations here first.

I typically observe these with my 20-inch f/5 reflector from my back yard, with very high magnification.  However, I tried to select at least a few pairs with wider separations which should be resolvable with smaller apertures.  

It's a fun project (to me) and I hope to continue it for many years to come

Mark

[Jamie Dillon, DDK]

Buddy, good to see you in colorful print. You're one of the most diligent observers I've ever known.

[Ted Hauter]

Thanks!!!

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Buddy, good to see you in colorful print. You're one of the most diligent observers I've ever known.

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