The Board of Directors

The Board of Directors

Contact: 808-375-3060 Email: kenarcher@iolc.org

Ken Archer, President and Board member

Captain Ken Archer recently retired from a Hawaii based airline to pursue his passion in astronomy. Ken earned a master’s degree in astronomy and has the educational background required for an astronomy outreach program. Ken built his first observatory in 1999 starting with a Losmandy G-11 with a Celestron C-11 telescope. One day while chatting with a friend in Japan the idea came up that they could share telescope time over the internet, which was the start of the for a remote automated observatory. Since then the observatory has been shared with people from around the world. Ken has built other observatories since then and consulted on others.

Ken has been featured in a Japanese Astronomy magazine Hoshinavi, where a six page article explains the art of remote observing. In other cases his astrophotography and observatory have been seen in the following issues of magazines; Hoshinavi, Japan August 2003 / Temmon Guide, Japan October 2003 / Hoshinavi, Japan March 2004 / Sky and Telescope January 2005 / Hoshinavi, Japan April 2005 / Ciel & espace, France August 2005. Ken is also a member of the American Astronomical Society.

Frank Pino Board member

Frank is a retired LA County Fire Department helicopter pilot. Frank is one of the best visual astronomers around. He has a BA in Social Science from Central Washington University. Frank resides in Arizona and runs a automated remote observatory. Frank Enjoys going to star parties and visual astronomy and as taken his telescope equipment to many schools and colleges to share with students. Frank has been a member in the following astronomy clubs Wenatchee Astronomy Club, Washington State, Hawaii Astronomical Society, East Valley Astronomy Club of Mesa, AZ.

Dr. Carl Pennypacker Board member (center)

Carl Pennypacker, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, is the principal investigator for the Hands On Universe project. Dr. Pennypacker has spent much of his career as a research astrophysicist, receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1978. His principal research over the last decade has been studying supernovae and building techniques for their automated discovery. Dr. Pennypacker became tremendously excited by the power and potential of student and scientist partnerships when teachers and students started discovering supernovae in the HOU project. Dr. Pennypacker has graciously volunteered to be a board member without compensation.

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