Heather Couper

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Heather Anita Couper (born June 2, 1949) is a British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television in competition with Patrick Moore. She was president of the British Astronomical Association 1984-1986.

She graduated from the University of Leicester and did research at the Department of Astrophysics at Oxford University.

Couper has written and co-written several books on astronomy and space, many of these in collaboration with Nigel Henbest and made many presentations for radio, television, and in public. From 1993 to 1996, she gave public lectures as professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. Couper along with Nigel Henbest and Stuart Carter co-founded Pioneer Productions,, an independent UK TV production company focusing on factual programming. Couper recently left Poneer Productions to concentrate on more general radio and TV appearances.

[edit] Selected bibliography

(All co-authored with Nigel Henbest.)

Universe (Boxtree, 2001), ISBN 0-7522-7255-1
Mars: The Inside Story of the Red Planet (Headline Book, 2001), ISBN 0-7472-3543-0
Space Encyclopedia (Dorling Kindersley, 1999), ISBN 0-7894-4708-8
Is Anybody Out There? (Dorling Kindersley, 1998), ISBN 0-7894-2798-2