Rod Mollise is familiar to amateur astronomers as the author of numerous books and magazine articles on every aspect of astronomy, amateur and professional. He is most well known, however, for his books on Schmidt Cassegrain Telescopes, SCTs, and especially Choosing and Using a New CAT (Springer), which has become the standard reference for these instruments.
Rod, a retired engineer, stays busy teaching astronomy to undergraduates at the University of South Alabama. He has been enthusiastically observing the night sky since he received his first telescope as a Christmas present in 1965.
