From my earliest memories, I have been enamored with the mysteries of outer space. As a child, I was absolutely spellbound by the moon landings and would spend hours studying each step of the mission, from the launch to the lunar landing to the return journey back to Earth. I vividly recall gazing up at my own cardboard models of spacecraft suspended from the ceiling, marveling at the sheer scale and beauty of these amazing feats of human engineering. The stunning images of space in National Geographic and other publications only further fueled my imagination and sense of wonderment, instilling in me a lifelong fascination with the unknown depths of the universe…
I acquired an iOptron Skyguider Pro camera mount system in 2019. This system aligns my camera to the north star and compensates for the earthās rotation, allowing me to take extremely long exposures of the heavens, picking up faint sources of light from such bodies as nebula and galaxies that are otherwise hidden from our eyes. Further, I can enhance these images by taking multiple exposures during the night, and then āstackingā them with a multitude of free, open-source software available online.




































