Projects and Interests
On July 22nd, 2025 I was invited by Astronomy on Tap Austin to give a talk on how I made my backyard observatory. Here is the presentation and some pics: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cLGHAU_PNJVKxVOkh-Q52IYWnaEmTJuPJAuGUzbe-dA/edit?usp=sharing
This was an amazing chance to visit a premier world-renowned observatory and use one of their guest astronomer telescopes. I went on July 19th, 2025. For more info go here, I highly highly recommend it to cap off your astronomy career. Our guide was amazing …
Parkes radio observatory was responsible for transmitting the live television broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon. I was lucky to have gone in 2019 during the 50-year anniversary of the moon landings when all of Parkes was in the news!
The story of my pilgrimage to the Harvard Center for Astrophysics to witness the earliest astronomical photos and view the precious artifacts of analysis that led to the greatest discoveries of our universe – meticulous science performed by the brilliant minds of the women who …
One of the major sites that I’ve always wanted to visit has been the Very Large Array in New Mexico… and in the summer of 2016 I made it there! Â What an incredible trip full of majestic barren scenery, incredible painted horizons and once again …
My bucket list is to visit the world’s great astronomical observatories. Â Since I’m in Austin, and got both my degrees from UT Austin, the first logical choice was to visit the Mcdonald Observatory in the mountains of Fort Davis, TX. Â I’ve been to MCD Observatory …
In June of 2016 I started my bucket list journey of visiting the world’s great telescopes. After a long tough year of teacher Geology and Astronomy I started my journey with a tropical vacation to Puerto Rico to visit the Arecibo National Radio Observatory. Â For …
I have a fairly unique – yet understandable – bucket list. Â As an excuse to go travel to distant and remote unusual places, I have started to embark on various journeys to visit the great astronomical observatories of the world. Â As I visit an observatory …
