Steve has been fascinated in astronomy since childhood.  His earliest recollections of astronomy include looking at the sky with his family and seeing those early satellites of Echo and Echo II.  His grandfather’s description of the passage of Haley’s Comet in 1910 inspired him to build his first telescope.  Through the years, Steve has build many telescopes ranging in size from 3 to 20 inches in diameter.  Since Steve enjoys woodworking, some of his telescopes have been made from Black Walnut.  It is as nice to look through them as it is to look at them.  Along with his wife Sue, they built their own “Starfield” roll off roof observatory under dark skies in Northern Kentucky.

 

Steve is retired after 31 years of service with Soil and Water Conservation Districts in Southwest Ohio.  This retirement provides Steve with the daylight hours needed for solar observations and imaging.  Having traveled to 5 total solar eclipses, Steve and Sue now use a Hydrogen Alpha solar filter to observe and image the ever changing solar features that they glimpsed during those total solar eclipses.

 

With digital photography, Steve enjoys imaging the sun, moon and planets.  Several of his images have been published in the local media, on TV, in several books, and on the Internet.

 

You can see more of his work at: http://home.fuse.net/starfield