Published Material and Mentions
Books
Published by Springer
Co-authored by Rich Handy, David Moody, Jeremy Perez, Erika Rix, and Sol Robbins
Published by Springer (December, 2011)
Co-authored by Rich Handy, Deirdre Kelleghan, Thomas McCague, Erika Rix, and Sally Russell
Published by Springer (September, 2015)
Co-authored by Erika Rix, Kim Hay, Sally Russell, and Rich Handy
by William Paolini, Springer; 2013 edition (September 5, 2013)
Contributed descriptions of using zoom and wide-field eyepieces.
by Lambert Spix and Frank Gasparini, Published by Oculum-Verlag (Dec 2011)
Contributed Bullialdus sketch from 2011.
by Mike D. Reynolds and Michael E. Bakich, Morton Publishing (2015)
Contributed lunar sketches.
by the British Astronomical Society
Contributed tutorial on how to sketch H-alpha solar features.
by Peter Grego, Philip’s (December 17, 2015)
Contributed a sketch of lunar craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, and Catharina.
Magazines
Issue 80 – featured “Star Person”
Issue 64 – Solar Sketching III
Issue 59 – Solar Sketching II
Issue 57 – Solar Observing & Sketching
January 2016 Issue – Astro Sketching – Kneaded erasers
November 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Catch the fleeting ISS
October 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Solar prominences
September 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Sketch Minkowski’s nebulae
July 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Think positive
June 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Galaxy groupings
May 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Black paper
March 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – An award for sketching
February 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – Two perspectives
January 2015 Issue – Astro Sketching – The feeling is mutual; ‘Where are the women in amateur astronomy?‘ by Karen Jennings – including short interview
December 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Star-rich views
November 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Creating unresolved stars; ‘When astronomy gives you goosebumps‘ by Michael Bakich – including two of my goosebump moments
October 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Sketching a lunar eclipse
September 2014 Issue – Featured article ‘Animating the Moon – Move over, Pixar, Erika Rix made a movie out of the Moon.’; Web Extra – Sketching Moon Phases – See how one amateur astronomer drew one lunation and put her observations in motion.; Astro Sketching – Comparing magnifications
July 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Star death
June 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Get stumped
May 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Tracking asteroids
April 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Processing your sketch
March 2014 Issue – Featured article ‘Sketch the Messier objects in one night’; Astro Sketching – Mastering Jupiter’s atmosphere
February 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Realistic eyepiece sketches
January 2014 Issue – Astro Sketching – Very faint nebulae
December 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Capturing comets
October 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Our amazing Moon
September 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Sketching small planetaries
July 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – On the trail of dark nebulae
June 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Filtered solar views
April 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Targeting galaxies
March 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – The Messier Marathon
February 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – Stars and Nebulosity
January 2013 Issue – Astro Sketching – *New Column for Astronomy Magazine* – Target – Winter Clusters
May 2010 Issue – Solar sketch included in Michael Bakick’s Fun Observing the Sun article
March 2013 Issue – Globular cluster M79 at the eyepiece with white paper, graphite, blending stump and tortillon, assorted graphites and black felt-tipped pen for the Drawn to the Universe article
December 2012 Issue – Jupiter and Europa at the eyepiece with white card stock, graphite – colorized in Photoshop CS2 for the Drawn to the Universe article
September 2012 Issue – Lunar stippling at the eyepiece with black artist’s pens on white cardstock for the Drawn to the Universe article
July 2012 Issue – White pastel on black paper sketching featuring close up solar prominences for the Drawn to the Universe article
March 2012 Issue – Charcoal sketching featuring Mars for the Drawn to the Universe article
December 2011 issue – Charcoal lunar sketching featuring Erastosthenes for the Drawn to the Universe article
June 2011 Issue – Solar sketch included in Jeremy Perez’s Drawn to the Universe article
May 2009 Issue – NEAF article that included mention regarding Sol Robbins, myself, and Springer with Astronomical Sketching
(other mentions for NEAF solar workshop 2010)
- Practical Astronomer
Vol. 4, Issue 3 – Portrait of a solar observer and sketcher
Vol. 67, No. 1, December 2014 – ALCon 2014 presenter mention
Issue 1 (online magazine) – Sketching the Sun
- Various Astronomy Newsletters
Interviews
- NEAF 2010 Interview – with Tom Trusock
- Houston Astronomical Society newsletter GuideStar, December 2012 issue – Just Looking – A GuideStar Interview by Clayton L. Jeter
- Amateur Astronomy Magazine, Fall 2013 issue #80 – Star Person – guest interview
Awards
- Reflector, Vol. 65, No. 4 – Received 1st place for the 2013 Mabel Sterns Newsletter Editor Award from the Astronomical League.
Editorship
- Contributing Editor for Astronomy magazine – October 2014 through present
- Sidereal Times – July 2012 through May 2014
- Contributing Editor for Solar Observer magazine – 2010
PCW Memorial Observatory - Erika Rix 