NORMAL, Ill. - Celina native Dr. Carl Wenning's fascination with the night sky began when his grandfather, Edward "Frank" Feltz of Sharpsburg, pointed out Venus to him in the summer of 1957.

Wenning, 61, an academic who spent a majority of his career at Illinois State University as a physics and astronomy lecturer, planetarium director and program director, has since seen countless celestial bodies. [More]