Star guest: Dr John Mason, astronomer and eclipse guru, in Wyoming in 2017 – awaiting that year’s total solar eclipse (Simon Calder)The last great eclipse in the US was in 2017.

TV stargazer Patrick Moore was only too willing to help and lifted the 12-year-old John up to reach the lens to study the planet Saturn.. More than 30 years later, Dr John Mason is carving out his ...

John Mason, a California sculptor known for groundbreaking, large-scale, ceramic abstractions, died Sunday at his home in Carlsbad at age 91, said his wife, Vernita Mason.

John Mason’s “Blue Wall” (1959), an abstract clay wall piece 21 by 7 feet. Mr. Mason looked for ways to overcome the limitations of clay and glaze that had confined earlier ceramists.

Sir John Mason: Physicist who ... as Honorary General Secretary and later President, and was a pivotal member of the Astronomy Space Radio Board of the Science and Engineering Research Council. ...

Exclusive: You can’t observe all the wonders of totality unless you’ve got 100 per cent, says Dr John Mason ...