Member since 2019-02-07

My interest in astronomy came about when I was in middle school. One clear Texas night in my small town I took my father's binoculars and looked up at the moon. I was hooked. My parents bought me a little KMart TASCO telescope refractor on a EQ mount. I had no idea how to use it but I looked at the moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars. It also had one of those plates where you could project an image of the sun. One year on vacation my parents took me to the McDonald observatory in Texas and I thought I would be a professional astronomer when I grew up (didn't happen).

I live in Bonney Lake and wanted to share my passion with others so with a co-worker we started a local astronomy club and I convinced the SAS board to let us become the first SAS chapter.

Current setup is a Orion 120ST, a ETX-125, and a EVOguide 50ed, sitting on a AVX mount with a asi533mc-pro, a SVBONY SV905c, and an asi120mm-mini.