About
Reporting from the observatories and the dark-sky towns.
Last Light is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
Last Light is a quarterly of astronomy and night-sky reporting — observatories, dark-sky preservation, the history of the discipline, and amateur observation.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the Last Light Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@lastlightjournal.co.
The masthead
- BG
Beatriz Garcia is a historian of nineteenth-century southern-hemisphere astronomy. She founded Last Light in 2025.
- AB
Anselm Bauer has reviewed amateur telescopes for two decades. He edits Last Light's Equipment section from his back garden in Munich.
- YK
Yael Kahn lives in one of the darkest small towns in the Mediterranean and edits Last Light's Dark Sites section.
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Cosmo Tate is a science writer and former planetarium director who edits Last Light's Observatories section.
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Iolanda Ferro is an amateur solar observer with a small private observatory in the hills above Naples. She edits Last Light's Meteors and Solar sections.