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About Me
My name is “Dave” Ingram and I am the SAS, Vice President of Education.
I work with Aaron and the SAS Board and with our wonderful outreach volunteers to properly welcome new members at every level of experience to the “Society”. I already know that you are curious about the stars just like I am.
Together, we can share what attracts us all to the night sky. The Society provides a wide, thoughtful selection of educational opportunities that can guide you to learn, to share and to enjoy our being an SAS amateur astronomer.
I was raised in clean air and under starry skies in Indiana farm country; a true “Hoosier”. My high school buddies and I studied science and math. In our free time we worked farm jobs, “bucked” bales of hay, tended dairy herds and built model planes, model rockets. We even blew a few up. With the help of our physics teacher, we also ground mirrors and built Dobsonian telescopes from “Edmond Scientific plans.
In Missouri, I attended a small-college and earned a degree in Literature with a minor in Education.
In 2011, after 30+ years I retired from Boeing. In the summers of 2012-2014 I was an astronomy Volunteer in Park (ViP) at the Glacier National Park, MT.. Together with 3 other ViPs, I shared the Sun, the Milky Way, aurora borealis, the Moon, planets and stars with over 20,000 guests under some of the darkest skies in America’s National Park system.
I am what you would call, a dedicated “all-season, visual” stargazer, sharing my passion for astronomy and science with my grandkids and with any other children and adults who are still “kids-at-heart”. I participate in over 30 SAS “astronomy outreach” events a year. I strongly support the International Dark-sky Association www.darksky.orgwith my time and money often traveling the four-state area (ID-MT-OR-WA) and the USA to promote the “dark sky movement which advocates citizen involvement in protecting and restoring dark night skies for us and for all future generations.
If you are like me, and you love exploring the celestial sphere; if you want to learn how to share the adventure and grandeur of astronomy, please reach out to me. I’d love to get to know what drives you to infinity and beyond the stars! -- Dave
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I grew up in Wales and obtained degrees in Math and Computing, and Human-Computer Interaction. While in the UK I interned at Royal Observatory Edinburgh where I prototyped a system to allow telescope control to be shared between sites in the UK and Hawaii. I have always been in interested in science and photography and recently became interested in astrophotography. During the day I am a Software Development Manager.
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As an astrologer I have been fascinated by the planets and stars as long as I can remember. In 2017 I bought myself a DSLR camera for a trip and quickly became obsessed with long exposure night photography, particularly shots of the Milky Way and Aurora Borealis (when lucky enough to see it at this latitude). Conversations about ancient alien theories will always interest me, and I have no fear diving deep into that rabbit hole! I am interested in learning more about astronomy and astrophotography, and love to go on location for extreme photo opps!
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I love science in many ways, from aeronautics to computer and micro-controller programming.
I'm just a beginner on astronomy, hoping to make this science another passion in my life.
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I am engineer at a major aerospace company and I love designing and 3D printing parts to squeek out a little extra performance or save a few bucks. I love DSO imaging, and
I have a couple scopes:
- C9.25 SCT (1525mm)
- SVX102T (717mm)
- Redcat51 (250mm)
- Rokinon F2 *(135mm)
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Have always loved the stars and beyond. I am excited to see what this society has to offer and whatever I can do to help out thisa society of stargazers!
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I live just outside Twisp, WA on the Methow River. With our dark skys in the valley I am just beginning to start observing and photography.
