Publisher and Author
Sperling founded astronomical supplier and publisher Everything in the Universe in 1977. He as been assistant editor for Sky & Telescope magazine and science editor for www.AltaVista.com. Sperling is currently, as of 2011, the editor and publisher of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, a science humor magazine. He has authored What Your Astronomy Textbook Won’t Tell You (ISBN 0-913399-04-3) and Any Parent’s Recipe for Great Baseball He edited and published John Dobson's book How and Why to Make a User-Friendly Sidewalk Telescope (ISBN 0-913399-63-9). He has also been published in Academic American Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana online, Technology Review, San Francisco Examiner, Astronomy, Pacific Discovery, Journal of College Science Teaching, Mercury, Rittenhouse, Popular Astronomy, Telescope Making, Griffith Observer, Reflector, and The Pundit.
Sperling created the Catalog of North American Planetaria (CATNAP), which later expanded into the Planetarium Directory. He has been planetarium director at Duncan Planetarium, Princeton Day School, New Jersey; Rotary-Chabot Planetarium, Chabot Observatory and Science Center, California; and Edgewood Junior High School Planetarium, Maryland, and he has been a lecturer at Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco.
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