Dr. Helen Hart is an astronomer. She was born in Billings, Montana. When Helen was 2 or 3 years old, her family moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a big city full of street lights. She stayed there until she was about 5 years old. Hart dates her interest in astronomy to her move back to Montana, as they drove at night through the lightless emptiness of North Dakota.
Dr Hart says there is nothing so beautiful as a truly dark sky on a clear moonless night, the landscape lit by
soft starlight, and the sky full of glittering jewels and diamond dust. She has heard it said that understanding
refraction theory does not enhance the beauty of a
rainbow,
but thinks whoever said that was dead wrong. She best appreciates the world when she can comprehend it in her eye and in
her mind.