Photos and more information of my observation

Below is a photo of me in the Space Telescope Institute's Observation Room in Baltimore, MD the day of my observation. You can see Titan's target image and my spectra in the photo...Note my Hubble Tie!!

Below is a photo of what my spectra looked like coming directly from the Hubble !!

NEW IMAGES !!!

• Click here for a real cool monatage of images I took of the first repair mission launch (at night!) of the Shuttle to service the Hubble
  
• Here is a photo of me working on my spectra at the Space Telescope Institute
  
• This is the target image of Titan taken thru the WFPC
  

These images are on another machine due to space limitations. Click the "BACK" button to return to this page after viewing the image.

Additional reading

Magazines & Journals: 

-The Demise of HST Amateur Program, Sky & Telescope, June 1997, p. 97

-Astronomy on the Edge: Using the Hubble Space Telescope", Sky & 
Telescope, October 1992 pp. 386-394 ( explains the whole evolution  
of a proposal till it becomes  an observation )
-How Amateurs will use HST, Sky & Telescope, January 1990 pp. 30-33
-Amateurs and the HST, Sky & Telescope, September 1986 p. 233
-Hubble Image Restored, Richard T. Fienberg,  Sky & Telescope, April 
1994 pp. 20-23

-Voyager: Science at Saturn, Astronomy, February 1981, pp. 16-22
-The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Astronomy, June 1982, pp. 6-22
-Atmospheres, Astronomy, September 1987, pp. 20-24
-From Idea to Observation: the Space Telescope at Work, Astronomy, June 
1989, pp. 38-45
-Hubble Opens New Vistas, Astronomy, February 1991, pp. 30-37
-Hubble Better than New,  Astronomy, April 1994, pp. 44-49

-Early Results from the Hubble Space Telescope, Scientific American, 
June 1992,   pp. 44-51
-Titan, Scientific American,  February 1982, pp. 100-113
-The Space Telescope, Scientific American,  July 1982

-Was Adenine the First Purine?", Science, volume 245, September 8, 1989, 
pp. 1102-1104 (This is the article that gave the idea to search for 
formaldehyde)

Astronomy, Sky and Telescope, Science News, Scientific American, Science 
Probe and other science and astronomy periodicals periodically have 
updates on recent HST findings.

Books
-The Hubble Wars, Eric J. Chaisson, Harper Collins, 1994
-Moons and Planets, 3rd edition, William K. Hartman, Wadsworth Publ Co., 
California 1993
-The New Solar System, 3rd edition; J. Kelly Beatty & Andrew Chaikin 
(editors), Sky Publishing Corp., 1990
-Satellites of the Outer Planets: Worlds in their Own Right. David A. 
Rothery, Oxford University Press, New York 1982
-Saturn, Tom Gehrels and Mildred S. Matthews (editors), Univ. of Arizona 
Press, 1984 (very technical collaborative book on Saturn)
-Satellites, Joseph A. Burns and Mildred S. Matthews (editors), Univ. of 
Arizona Press, 1986 (very technical collaborative book on various satellites)
-The Space Telescope, David Ghitelman, Gallery Books, New York 1987
-Yoyages to Saturn, David Morrison, NASA Publication SP-151, 1982