Hobby-Eberly Telescope Metal Print

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The Hobby Eberly Telescope at 9.2 M (360") is one of the largest telescopes in the world. Like a giant, flat honeycomb, it is made up of a number of 36", six sided, mirrors, with the sole purpose of studying starlight by spectroscopy.

When I moved to Kodiak, Alaska in May of 1980, I wasn't there a day when I called my dad (the "photo-bug" of the family) and told him to send me a camera, any camera, and send it quick. The camera was from a camera company I'd never heard of before or since (Bessler), but more importantly I was well on my way into the wonderful world of photography. Astronomy has always been another "love of my life", and I think it shows in a lot of the composite photos shown here. About a dozen years ago my youngest brother Joe told me I should get into computers and this thing called Photoshop. Told me it was right up my alley in what I tried to take "in camera". I flat out told him I already had 2 hobbies that were costing me thousands of...