Periodic Comet Shoemaker 4, 1994k, P/1994 J3 (aided in discovery).Comet Shoemaker 1992y, C/1992 U1 (aided in discovery).Comet Hartley-IRAS (P/1983 V1), Novem(independent discovery).Nova Cygni 1978, Septem(independent discovery).Nova Cygni 1975, Aug(independent discovery).Comet Jarnac, P/2010 E2 (David Levy, Wendee Levy, Tom Glinos).Periodic Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, 1993e, D/1993 F2.
Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6, 1991b1, P/1991 V1.Periodic Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1, 1990o, P/1990 V1.Together with Martyn Ives, David Taylor, and Benjamin Woolley, Levy won a 1998 News & Documentary Emmy Award in the "Individual Achievement in a Craft, Writer" category for the script of the documentary 3 Minutes to Impact produced by York Films for the Discovery Channel. In 2008, a special edition telescope, "The Comet Hunter" was co-designed by Levy. In 2007, Levy received the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets. In 1993 he won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1980. The main-asteroid 3673 Levy was named in his honour. Levy's autobiography, "A Nightwatchman's journey: the Road Not Taken" was published in June 2019 by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Levy is President of the National Sharing the Sky Foundation and a Master of Astronomy with DeTao Masters Academy (DTMA). Show archives are available in WMA and MP3 formats.
Levy and his wife hosted a weekly internet radio talk show on astronomy, which ended on February 3, 2011, with a planned "Final Show". He lives in Vail, Arizona and is married to Wendee Levy. The observing records are also on-line at the website of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Starting in 2015, Levy has been donating his observing logs, which he has kept continuously since 1956, his personal journals since 1958, and his comet search records since 1965, to the Linda Hall Library of Science Library in Kansas City. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his successful completion of his thesis "The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572–1620." On February 28, 2010, Levy was awarded a Ph.D. In addition, Levy is the sole discoverer of two periodic comets: 255P/Levy and P/1991 元. Periodic comets that Levy co-discovered include 118P/Shoemaker–Levy, 129P/Shoemaker–Levy, 135P/Shoemaker–Levy, 137P/Shoemaker–Levy, 138P/Shoemaker–Levy, 145P/Shoemaker–Levy, and 181P/Shoemaker–Levy.
He has provided periodic articles for Sky and Telescope magazine, as well as Parade Magazine, Sky News and, most recently, Astronomy Magazine. He has written 34 books, mostly on astronomical subjects, such as The Quest for Comets, a biography of Pluto-discoverer Clyde Tombaugh in 2006, and his tribute to Gene Shoemaker in Shoemaker by Levy.
Levy went on to discover 23 comets, either independently or with Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker.
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