First Brush With The Stars
In the Spring of 1927 Professor Ralph Curtiss loaned Ford two books: Splendour of the Heavens, and The Friendly Stars. In the back of the latter book's original edition there was an invitation by William Tyler Olcott of the AAVSO to contribute to the advancement of astronomy by observing variable stars. Ford took Olcott and the AAVSO up on that invitation and on September 23, 1927, he reported his first variable star estimate - 184205 R Scuti at 5.3 magnitude.
Ford made over 60,000 variable star observations, and became the youngest member of the American Association of Variable Star Observers at the age of 15.
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