Needle in a Haystack
Budden, Diane Phelps / Bauerle, Tanja
Picking out a faint planet amid the myriad of star images would be literally like finding a needle in a haystack." -- Clyde W. Tombaugh, 1980Growing up on a Kansan farm gave Clyde W. Tombaugh plenty of sky to explore, plenty of time to learn all he could about astronomy. He and his father and uncle trained their homemade telescope on the planets. Clyde drew the surfaces of Mars and Jupiter and shared his drawings with Lowell Observatory in Fla...