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My interest in Astronomy began at the age of eight. I joined the Los Angeles Astronomical Society in high school as well as the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and began building and using telescopes.
While attending an ASP meeting in the early seventies, I heard an “after hours†lecture by Dr. Drake who was explaining his equation for the probability of extra-terrestrial intelligence, and I was immediately hooked on the subject. I joined the Seti@home project in May 1999.
In 2001, I attended the Astrobiology Conference in Australia where seti was an underling theme. While in attendance, I ran a remotely controlled nighttime telescope from Mt. Wilson California for the daytime audience in Australia.
I have been a telescope operator at the Mt. Wilson Observatory since 2000 for both scientific research and public out-reach The last science project I participated using the 100†Hooker telescope was a radial velocity search for exoplanets for NASA/JPL and the Smithsonian.
I am in the process of building a personal observatory to be used for exoplanet light curve generation, asteroid rotation studies, and perhaps Optical Seti.
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