mikeu

Real Name: Michael Umbricht

City: Providence, RI

Country: US

Timezone: America/New_York

Background/Interesting Fact: I have previously worked at the Planetarium in the Providence Museum of Natural History and been involved in the <a href="http://www.theskyscrapers.org/">Skyscrapers</a> Amateur Astronomical Society of RI.<br /> <br /> I am interested in incorporating Citizen Sky into public programs at Ladd Observatory, outreach in the local schools and teacher workshops.&nbsp; Recently, I&nbsp;have been testing <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vstar/">VStar</a> and plan to work on documentation and tutorials for using the software.&nbsp; I attended the Summer 2009 CS&nbsp;Workshop in Chicago and gave a presentation about VStar at the Fall 2009 AAVSO meeting.<br /> <br /> I'd like to try using a wide-field of view sky camera and also a medium resolution spectrograph for eps Aur observations.<br /> <br /> -mikeu<br /> <br /> <a href="http://brown.edu/ladd">Ladd Observatory</a><br /> <a href="http://physics.brown.edu">Department of Physics</a><br /> <a href="http://brown.edu">Brown&nbsp;University</a><br /> &nbsp;

Member since: July 3, 2009 - 11:22am (2 years 30 weeks)