I was born in 1949 and after education at North Cestrian Grammar School and the N. E. London Polytechnic, graduated in Zoology in 1972. After spending some years at British Arkady Co., I went to Reading University and qualified with a P.G.C.E. in 1981, permitting me to teach. I then taught Science and Biology in Zimbabwe and Botswana, later teaching in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E., before returning to the UK in 2000. (currently in UAE) I am a member of both the MAS and Altrincham Astronomical Society, Cheshire. My main interests in astronomy are variable stars and meteors. Accumulated 10,000 variable star observations in 1975, and have since lost count.

......... Current Interests .........

Continuing to observe variable stars with binoculars.

I would like to obtain a CCD camera to image the brighter variables so that I can measure them photoelectrically, rather than by visual estimation and comparison.

Some of my recent observations can be found on the MAS Technical site. (link)

Photographing the current series of sunspots