Thanks for taking the time to browse this website. The idea to create a website dedicated to visual Astronomy through amateur equipment, astronomical news, and other interesting space oriented topics (manned spaceflight, NASA, history, etc.) came to me through a class I was taking at the University of Washington.

"Modern Topics in Astronomy" is a section dedicated to Astronomy outreach at the University of Washington. The class mainly focuses on presenting Astronomy-oriented talks open to the public and the campus community of the UW. You can learn more about these ongoing presentations at the UW Campus Observatory’s website.

As I mentioned above, the main goal of the class was to prepare students for giving public talks on Astronomy-related topics. However, there were other supplemental tasks you could complete as well. One of those was building a website.

The first iteration of this website, which I turned in for points, was junk. It had a little bit of content, a links page, and a few pretty pictures, but I generally disliked it. Creating a website is no easy task and it did take a long time, but I decided that I should make something with a little more flexibility and lasting power. So I set out to create the version you are looking at now.

You can find any presentations I have given at the UW Campus Observatory on the Presentations page and any news I find worth publishing on the News page. Furthermore, I intend to add my experiences with the equipment I have spent an embarrassing amount of money on and post any pictures I get around to taking.

Thanks for visiting. If you run across any errors or have a comment, send me an email, I would be happy to hear from you.