Dr. Phil Plait , aka "The Bad Astronomer" . ... Biography . ... Book Reviews . ... Bad Astronomy site . ... When I was maybe four or five years old, my dad brought home a cheapo department store telescope. ... Eventually, he worked with the Hubble Space Telescope, spending ten years using it to observe expoding stars and helping to calibrate one of the cameras on board. ... In 2001, Dr. Plait finished his book Bad Astronomy , published by Wiley and Sons. ...