Astrophotographer mug shots

[Terry B]

An international hall of fame. Lots of recognizable names.
See
http://mstecker.com/pages/app.htm

[dugnsuz]

LOL Strongmanmike's pic is a cracker!!

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If we're lucky some more of us might get our mugs in the picture:)

Great one of Mike, though...that piccie has given me an idea, if I can find the appropriate add-ins:D

[matt]

I had a laugh reading the bio on Australia.

Under the 'Dangerous Australian Animals' section...it reads:

StingraysOn September 3, 2006 while filming a documentary, Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin was murdered off the coast of the most dangerous continent in the world – Australia.

Murdered, no less!!!!:lol::lol:

[Ric]

Yep there's quite a few big names in that lot and a few I haven't heard off as well. I'll have to look out for their works as well.

Have to agree Doug, Mike's mug is a ripper.

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Fiends!!!!:eyepop::P:D

[Ric]

Just because we have the worlds top ten most poisonous snakes that no reason to say we are the worlds deadliest continent.;) :lol:

Any way I thought we were an island. :P

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Actually the top 18 deadliest....only 2 from overseas beat out a few of our critters:eyepop:

But the top 10 are all ours.

[turbo_pascale]

It is woefully out of date though.
Of the three I read properly, (Brad Moore, Steve Crouch, Mike Sidonio) everything about their gear is at least 3-4 years out of date.

You think they could have got a more recent pic of David Malin too. That shot looks like something out of the 80's!

Turbo

[GrahamL]

Not many ladies .. I know thats not the case overall as there are quite a few out there.. But it always comes as a surprise to me that there is not a lot interest in astronomy from the girls .

[strongmanmike]

What?.. is it the Kilt you like? :D

That photo was taken in 2004 shortly before I retired from the sport...can't quite do that anymore :doh:..maybe a polystyrene version? :P

Yes it's old data from 2005

Mike

[Shawn]

Lets not even mention Drop Bears...:D

[strongmanmike]

Yes this was the subject of a wine infused "discussion" :lol: around the camp table on a cloudy night during IISAC last year. The learned souls couldn't put a finger on it but it's true, there are far fewer women into astronomy than men, why?... probably a few reasons? Anyway that's a whoooooooole other discussion :rolleyes:

Mike

[dugnsuz]

:lol:
Sorry Mike, I cannae help ma'sel when I see the swagger o' the kilt!!!
Doug:thumbsup:

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It's cultural....girls are generally taught not to pursue science as it's "not their style"...too hard....too nerdy and what would they want with it in the first place. Many boys are discouraged from it too...too nerdy and hard (many just don't have the smarts to do it anyway), yet when you look at the top 1-2% of the students in science at schools many of them are girls. Society doesn't expect young women to take up science as a career, so they generally follow that trend. It's not that they can't do it, it's that they're not encouraged to do it....for the most part they're actively discouraged. You can also blame the media and the education system for that.

A huge example of what happens when science is looked upon as being something weird and esoteric is the US. You only have to look at their acceptance of all this ultraconservative religious nonsense they're trying to ram down student's throats as "literal truth"...."Creation Science" etc, to see what I mean. Their retention rates in science courses is woeful as is their standards of science teaching. What makes this even worse is that the idiots out here in Oz are following their lead!!!!. To a certain extent. It's crept into universities over there, let's hope it gets nowhere fast out here. I hope our more pragmatic and less gullible natures in Oz manages to weed this nonsense out, or at least confine to the very fringes of education and society.

[Terry B]

And just to be out of sync. Our local astro group (UNENTAS) is 50% female.

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Which is great, but it's an aberration when you consider the general populous, and the general amateur population in particular. How many of the good ladies of our members really share their love for astronomy. Or any hobby for that matter. Most people these days don't even bother to look up at the sky!!!. They haven't a clue at what's there. Many would probably consider it pointless, anyway. I imagine some of our good ladies even consider their husband's/boyfriend's "obsession" pointless and a waste of money. Not many, but maybe some. That's what happens when you look at the world with blinkers on, you miss all the interesting stuff:)

[toc]

So few girls :(

[BerrieK]

Oi!! I'm a girl with a masters in applied science :einstein:!! And 2 young kids. And a husband (who calls me a geek!). And a job. And a boss that tells me I am too much of a boy. And not enough time to thoroughly persue my interests outside the abovementioned persuits!!

Now stop yer whinging, I have to get back to the housework:evil2:

[renormalised]

Oohhhh....a whip!!!!....YES!!!!:P:eyepop::D

We've been told, boys...."Mum" is cracking the whip:P:D

[gman]

Bring it into perspective, on paper, our snakes have the potential to be the deadliest in the world.

First we need to have snake attacks and resulting deaths. (lets hope not)
We have very few deaths from snake bites in Australia where as a places like Sri Lanka has heaps of deaths from low toxicity snakes.

We shoud say that our snakes are the most venomous snakes in the world