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About "CJ" It all started in the summer
of 2004, just turning 13 when I first laid my hands on a telescope
at my friends house in light polluted Denton, MD. I instantly fell
in love with the hobby when I looked in that plossl eyepiece in his
Nextar 70 and got blinded by the first quarter moon. I may never
care to see the moon again but at the time the view was priceless.
It was Christmas of 2004 when I got my first telescope, an
ETX-70. I still have the telescope now 5 years later and
continue to use it for white light solar viewing. My collection has
grown since then with a
14.5" F/6 Lohmeyer Truss,
10" F/4.5 Truss,
4.5" F/8 Dobsonian,
120mm F/8 Refractor, and 2
50mm Galileoscopes crammed into my bedroom. With those
telescopes I have logged over 1,100 objects since I started
electronically logging my
Accomplishments that I have
had so far was winning 2nd place in the Jack Horkheimer Award in
2007, achieving the Basic Planetary Nebula Certificate from the
Astronomical League, assisting numberous outreach events at a local
library, volunteering and running the 8" F/15 Clark Refractor at the
Baltimore Science Center Observatory, teaching a Brownie Troop class
so they could achieve their astronomy badges, and have my own
article in the local newspaper. Other life interests are storm chasing, photography, guitar, skiing, and paintballing. My weather website
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observations
in May of 2006. My favorite objects to observe are planetary nebulae
which I've logged over 140 of, 23 of them being Abells. I do own or
use digital setting circles or GOTO while I observe. It's just
between me, my Telrad, and SkyTools 3 on my laptop. Astronomy is
something I love to do and a passion in life. As hard as it may
sound for alot of people to hear, I do not plan to make it as a
career. I want to keep it as something I love to do rather then
making it as a job and having to do it. I want to keep the energy
that I have in this hobby forever. I want to personally thank Kent
Blackwell, Keith Lohmeyer, Ted Forte, Roy & Dee Diffrient, Chuck Harrison, and Dennis
Fletcher for being the most awesome people and helping me so much.
Without them, I wouldn't have the passion that I have now. Now I am
18 years old and still going strong.
It's been an awesome ride so far, I've been so blessed with it all.
Now I wonder what's next!
