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About Me
I am a novice at stargazing and hope to improve my proficiency. I have spent my career in financial services largely because my all-girls high school didn't have a physics class. Making up for that in my adult years, I'm hoping to improve to ultimately studing and photographing the night sky! I have a lot of happy learning to do!
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I am an Artist and a Maker. Photography, woodworking, astronomy and music are my passions.
About Me
My name is “Dave” Ingram and I am the SAS, Vice President of Education.
I work with Aaron and the SAS Board and with our wonderful outreach volunteers to properly welcome new members at every level of experience to the “Society”. I already know that you are curious about the stars just like I am.
Together, we can share what attracts us all to the night sky. The Society provides a wide, thoughtful selection of educational opportunities that can guide you to learn, to share and to enjoy our being an SAS amateur astronomer.
I was raised in clean air and under starry skies in Indiana farm country; a true “Hoosier”. My high school buddies and I studied science and math. In our free time we worked farm jobs, “bucked” bales of hay, tended dairy herds and built model planes, model rockets. We even blew a few up. With the help of our physics teacher, we also ground mirrors and built Dobsonian telescopes from “Edmond Scientific plans.
In Missouri, I attended a small-college and earned a degree in Literature with a minor in Education.
In 2011, after 30+ years I retired from Boeing. In the summers of 2012-2014 I was an astronomy Volunteer in Park (ViP) at the Glacier National Park, MT.. Together with 3 other ViPs, I shared the Sun, the Milky Way, aurora borealis, the Moon, planets and stars with over 20,000 guests under some of the darkest skies in America’s National Park system.
I am what you would call, a dedicated “all-season, visual” stargazer, sharing my passion for astronomy and science with my grandkids and with any other children and adults who are still “kids-at-heart”. I participate in over 30 SAS “astronomy outreach” events a year. I strongly support the International Dark-sky Association www.darksky.orgwith my time and money often traveling the four-state area (ID-MT-OR-WA) and the USA to promote the “dark sky movement which advocates citizen involvement in protecting and restoring dark night skies for us and for all future generations.
If you are like me, and you love exploring the celestial sphere; if you want to learn how to share the adventure and grandeur of astronomy, please reach out to me. I’d love to get to know what drives you to infinity and beyond the stars! -- Dave
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Former professional document reviewer, former UW astronomy student.
About Me
Hello, I'm thrilled to be part of the Seattle Astronomical Society, a community that shares my lifelong passion for the wonders of the cosmos.
My fascination with astronomy and astrophysics began in elementary school, where I eagerly read every book I could find on outter space, from asteroids to quasars. Those early years were marked by memorable moments spent with my dad and a 4.5" Newtonian reflector. Observing Saturn's rings and Jupiter's moons in the crisp, cold, clear northern Wisconsin nights.
I'm now based in Mill Creek, Washington, working as a senior software engineer. I enjoy keeping up to date the latest discoveries and papers in astrophysics and astronomy, always eager to expand my understanding of the universe. I'm looking forward to how I can contribute to SAS as a whole, and more directly in my local community. My current setup is an 8" Celestron Newtonian telescope on an EQ AVX mount.
Beyond the realm of astronomy, life is a blend of family time with my wife and two sons, woodworking, keeping up with Formula 1, and enjoying a good read. Some of my recent favorites include Carlo Rovelli's "Reality is Not What it Seems," Sabine Hossenfelder's "Existential Physics," and Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga.
I look forward to connecting with fellow skywatchers here at SAS.
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I am engineer at a major aerospace company and I love designing and 3D printing parts to squeek out a little extra performance or save a few bucks. I love DSO imaging, and
I have a couple scopes:
- C9.25 SCT (1525mm)
- SVX102T (717mm)
- Redcat51 (250mm)
- Rokinon F2 *(135mm)
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Have always loved the stars and beyond. I am excited to see what this society has to offer and whatever I can do to help out thisa society of stargazers!
