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Astronomy
"The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" Psalm 19
Sometime in the 1950's my dad dragged me out of bed to see Sputnik streaking across the sky. It was easy to find. After all, at the time the only other object in Earth orbit was the Moon. "That's neat," I told my Dad. "Is there anything else to see up there?" I've been spending a little more than 4 decades trying to find out what else there is to see up there. Along the way I've been able to work with some great folks on a variety of projects, including being able be part of a small team of amateur astronomers who were permitted to work with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993.
I am currently working with an international team in a systematic search for supernovae in other galaxies. My other projects include
...galaxy classification for the Digital Sky Survey,
...using my computer to participate in the SETI project.
...searching for stardust collected from a NASA mission (finding these tiny particles is like searching for 45 ants on a football field while searching one 5 cm x 5 cm square at a time).
My only claim to fame, and it isn't very significant, is being credited with the discovery of Pittendreigh's Law of Planetary Motion. Sky and Telescope published my work in February, 1994.
Above: Our remote controled
Slooh Telescopes
in the Canary Islands. Coming
soon - one in Chile!
Above: Using a club's 6 inch refractor. It's cheaper to join a club, than to build an observatory
My Current Projects
Tracking Asteroids and Near Earth Objects
Supernova Search
Galaxy classification project for Digital Sky Survey
NASA projects involving Amateur Astronomers
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