Ian is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the Society of Authors and of the Association of British Science Writers. He runs his own desktop publishing system for producing books and magazines.
Ian has been author or editor of over forty book titles, including a series of three sky guides, the Collins Guide to Stars and Planets and Gem Stars, a pocket guide to the constellations. He is editor of Norton’s Star Atlas, and of the Oxford Dictionary of Astronomy.