Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be an astronomer. It was my first love. With my first 2" Tasco telescope I “discovered” the rings of Saturn and moons of Jupiter, double stars, and the brightest star clusters, nebulae, and a few galaxies.

Soon after I got to college (Villanova, U.) I was then bitten by the research “bug”, and again it was “love at first sight”, this time with variable stars, actually collecting data used to “figure it all out”. Then I joined the HK Project at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, with more data collection but now with the 60-inch at Mount Wilson Observatory (and then the 100-inch) - the real telescopes!

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