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Hermograph Press LLC publishes books on astronomy and history, and materials for classroom use. Hermograph Press works out of the Opelika area.

It publishes books in astronomy (forthcoming) and history, and educational materials. We do writing and editing work for private clients. Astronomy workshops are done in science writing and astronomy education in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere.

12/18/2025

A duo pair of postings! First, The Galactic Times issue for mid-December--Every Solstice, Everywhere, but With Variable Times--talks about why every year's solstice is at different times of day or night, sometimes different days, and NOT the end of the year as it once was! Also, found and photographed a place that has too much time on its designer's hands. Literally, here a solstice, there a solstice....

https://thegalactictimes.substack.com

The revived Classroom Astronomer newsletter takes you on a tour of a not-so-ancient (but sure looks like it!) timepiece, a US replica of Stonehenge. But is it astronomically or historically accurate? Can you teach with it?

https://classroomastronomer.substack.com

And in both publications we have introduced a Paid Subscription tier. Either newsletter's Paid Subscribers will be able to take part in the Exploration of the Universe with Big Data project! Starting in January we will explore the mountains of digital data on stars, explosive and variable stars, exoplanets and more! Do you want to know everything there is to know about the Alpha Centauri system? Are there planets around Aldebaran? Is Betelgeuse about to explode? Join us to learn how to seek the answers to these and other questions.

12/07/2025

I published on December 1st (sorry for the late posting here) TWO issues and introduced a third new project.
1) The Galactic Times, published after a 5-week, 2000 miles there and back trip up the East Coast;
2) A revived after 2.5 years The Classroom Astronomer newsletter;
3) In BOTH newsletter, introduced a PAID Subscription tier called Exploration of the Universe with Big Data.

That last came from the fact that, after having published my Atlanta Civil War book, Walking the Line, 2nd Edition, I was ready to get back to work on two unfinished astronomy books....and I realized I really needed a lot of data. I also need it for use in several astronomy research scholarly journal articles I never did and want to do, finally, at last. There are now several large datasets, such as Gaia missions millions of star observations, Kepler KE2's mission's exoplanet dataset MAST, and about a dozen more. And I thought I would explore those...and a lot of other people--amateurs, professionals, educators--might like to join in on this. What do you know about YOUR FAVORITE star?? What's the scoop on Alpha Centauri's planets?How can a teacher use all this mass of data to teach about star sizes or finding exo-worlds?

Sign up at EITHER newsletter on Substack and upgrade to a paid tier to get in on the Exploration! There will be livestreams, video posts and more for Paid Subscribers--the Exploration will run simultaneously on both newsletters so you only need to be Paid on one. You still get all the free issues on both, but Paid subscribers also get discounts on the two astro books when they are finished!

Here are the Tables of Contents of the two December 1st issues of the two newsletters:

In This Issue of TGT 25R:
Cover Photo — Radiant of the Geminid Meteors
Welcome to Issue ( #101)!
Sky-Lites — The Geminids and Two Giant Worlds and Mercury in a Dark Sky
Astronomy in Everyday Life - Alien Construction Companies?
Article: Exploration of the Universe With Big Data - Join Us!
The Classroom Astronomer Newsletter #49 Table of Contents

and for the revived-after-2.5-years Classroom Astronomer....

In This Issue #49 of TCA:
Cover Photo - The Gaia Mission and its Data
Welcome to Issue #49 of The Classroom Astronomer!
Searching Gaia
Shaw Notes on Big Data in Astronomy Education - Three Presentations at Shaw on Using Big Data’s Spectra, Brightness, Radio Measures in the Classroom

https://classroomastronomer.substack.com
https://thegalactictimes.substack.com

11/25/2025

It has been a busy book-writing year and it ends with a 2nd edition of my 2014 book, Walking the Line. Originally the first, now the fourth, historical travelogue book I've written, it is the longest selling book in my repertoire. Different from the first edition is it being more than twice as many pages, it covers not only the circle of 36 forts that defended Atlanta in the American Civil War but I added three 'semi-permanent' Confederate defense lines and one Union offensive line. This includes the Chattahoochee River Line that had the one and only appearance of the Shoupade Forts, the strongest ever built in that War, yet never used again.

This is bringing in not only advance sales but already a number of book talk requests (one I did just this Thursday past) with hints of a larger number of these for 2026 and even 2027! Because of its content having an earlier base I was able to incorporate a study on recent short- and long-term preservation changes and attempts (and some lack thereof) of the soft sites.

You can read more about the book, see sample pages and illustrations, and purchase the book at https://www.hermograph.com/walkingtheline .

I am looking forward to returning to my native subject, astronomy, and finishing two long-past-due-to-be-finished astronomy books, one of which is related to the decades-long universe of sci-fi's Star Trek! The draft covers are below.

09/18/2025

OK, you probably can guess that Neil Armstrong has some stuff in museums somewhere or other. Surprisingly, not so much at NASA. More surprisingly, there’s a display in a small history museum in a small town in Germany! Armstrong is not a German name but a lot of his ancestors came from there.

Ever promise some one the Moon and the stars? Go one better tomorrow, the 19th, when the Moon, Venus and the star Regulus are only a total of 1.3 degrees apart in a straight line in the dawn!

These and more in the 99th issue of The Galactic Times, now on the website (subscribers got it in email 2 days ago—Subscribe!).

In This Issue:

Cover Photo — A Core Fellowship

Welcome to Issue !

This Just In — Cores of the Worlds—Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

Astronomical Travel — Immigrant Roots and Routes

Sky-Lites — Promise A Star, Moon, and Planet in the Dawn; An All Night Planet and A Partial Eclipse on the Same Day; The Equinox Arrives

Astronomy in Everyday Life — Chips Off The Old Moon

08/31/2025

Violence! Moon Food! Blood in the Sky! Workin’ on my birthday! (I wonder if they are all related….)

The latest The Galactic Times has been emailed (but not posted on the website, that's in a few days--Subscribe!). In it we take a look at violence in the universe, a total eclipse we can’t see (in the America’s) and two fun ways to to measure the Moon’s size and distance if you can see this eclipse. Then recharge yourself with some half-moon foods!

I’m going to non-violently eat my birthday food now…..LK, starting another orbit around the Sun.

In This Issue:

Cover Photo — Total Eclipse World Visibility Chart

Welcome to Issue !

This Just In — Violence in the Universe; DART Dirt and Two Dissected Supernovae

Sky-Lites (+ TCA) — Measuring the Moon During the September 7th Lunar Eclipse, plus Sky Events

Astronomy in Everyday Life — Mezza Moons

08/04/2025

TGT - Who's Throwing Rocks at the Solar System?? Part 2 - Meteors and Multiple Conjunctions on the Same Day
The August 1st Issue of The Galactic Times Magazine on Substack covers a diverse set of topics. Part 2 of our article on collisions in the Solar System looks closely at the Moon. An asteroid may hit it in 7 years, causing extensive damage to even Earth orbiting satellites. But Earth is already striking back at the Moon, crashing missions and rocket debris at it, causing craters. And we might not be the first to do; a serious mission proposal from the SETI Institute seeks to have a lander trawl the Moon's Far Side surface, sifting it for technological debris that has drifted through the interstellar medium to us from space-industrial-active (once, maybe not now) civilizations around other stars.
Be sure you are free to skygaze on August 12th. A meteor shower peaks, the dawn has a brilliant double planet pair, and two other planets and the Moon (remember that?) have a triple meeting in the sky.
And one produce company must have a staff astronomer--Cosmically named veggies!
Subscribe at https://thegalactictimes.substack.com ; more info at https://www.thegalactictimes.com .
In This Issue:
*Cover Photo — An Impact on the Moon
* Welcome to Issue !
* This Just In - Why is Everybody Throwing Rocks at the Moon and Planets?? And From Where? Part 2
* Sky-Lites — Big Day August 12th—Meteors, Double-Planets, Double Conjunction
* Astronomy in Everyday Life - Cosmic Veggies

07/18/2025

Who’s Throwing Rocks at the Solar System???

Yes, suddenly a whole lot of places, not just Earth, are being hit with cosmic rocks. And some of that could highly damage a lot of Earthly used space hardware. Where is all this coming from? Why will 2032 a danger point? In fact, why do so many such events happening around Christmas’s???

Not only that, but there appears to be a tipping point coming with the Moon, AND a large increase coming in those cosmic crater creators coming from Earthlings! Even more interesting, there may be extraterrestrials debris there. LGM stuff. Seriously!

Read Part 1 of this story in the current issue of The Galactic Times Magazine. Subscribe so you can get Part 2 in your Inbox.

In This Issue:

Cover Photo — Unscheduled Target: Moon
This Just In - Why is Everybody Throwing Rocks at the Moon and
Planets?? And From Where?
Welcome to Issue !
Sky Planning Calendar —
* Moon-Gazing - Moon Passes 5 Planets, Two Bright Stars and a Cluster
* Observing—Plan-et - A Decent “Practice” Meteor Shower
* Calendar Summary
Astronomy in Everyday Life - Rare Stars on Earth

https://thegalactictimes.substack.com

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Hermograph Press works out of Opelika, AL. It publishes books in astronomy (forthcoming) and history, and educational materials. Workshops are done in science writing and astronomy education in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere.