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Stephen James O’Meara was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and began looking at the sky at the age of 6. He learned the constellations on his own from a star wheel that he cut out from the back of a Corn Flakes box, and he discovered how a telescope focuses by accident.

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At the age of 14, Steve knew the sky so well that he was given the keys to Harvard College Observatory, where he began to study the stars using the observatory’s 9-inch and 15-inch refractors. He used these scopes to discover the spokes in Saturn’s B ring and to become the first person in history to accurately determine visually the rotation period of Uranus.

O’Meara earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in Boston. He spent much of his early career on the editorial staff of Sky & Telescope before joining Astronomy magazine as the “Secret Sky” columnist and as a contributing editor.

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