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About Me
Former President of SAS, deep sky visual observer and astrophotographer.
About Me
I am a life-long learner, deeply curious about the wondrous universe in which we live. I have been a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador since 2001 and I also teach about astronomy and planetary science in a variety of settings.
About Me
I am a novice at stargazing and hope to improve my proficiency. I have spent my career in financial services largely because my all-girls high school didn't have a physics class. Making up for that in my adult years, I'm hoping to improve to ultimately studing and photographing the night sky! I have a lot of happy learning to do!
About Me
I have been mainly doing astrophotography over the course of the last three years, focusing primarily on wide field deep sky targets (nebulae), but occasionally solar, galaxies, planets, and lunar as well.
About Me
Moved to Kirkland in 1996. I joined SAS at that time until 2006. Returning to SAS December, 2019. My wife and I own a cottage in a nearly dark sky location where I have my observatory setup. The observatory is a Meade 10" f8, Orion 80mm APO (600mm) and Orion 80ED guide scope (900mm) all riding on Losmandy G11 with Gemini II GoTo. Cameras are ZWO.
I am interested in participating in the Astrophotography SIG.
I am also on the board of directors of the Washington Alpine Club. My other activity is mountain hiking and climbing. Have climbed Mount Rainier five times.
Graduated with BS in Computer Science in 1983 from University of California, Irvine (UCI).
About Me
Ever since watching the Voyager on TV as it passed Jupiter, I've wanted to pursue the stars. As early as 12 years old, I recall wanting to get a PhD in orbital mechanics and work at JPL. I ended up taking a different course through aerospace engineering, technical Japanese interpretting, and software engineering while working at Boeing, Amazon, Xbox and others.
Most of my obvserving is visual, but recently I've taken a renewed interest in astrophotography. I live and work 100% remotely from central Washington (Chelan area), and enjoy seeing the Milky Way just 10 feet from my front-door.
For the past ten years, I've built and operated the SAS website and backend IT (email, web hosting, etc).
In 2014, I was recognized by Astronomical League for its Webmaster Award.
About Me
Former professional document reviewer, former UW astronomy student.
