Ive been interested in the stars since i was about 8 years old. I joined the JAS (SPA) in my teens and started timing Lunar occultations, being spurred on by the then Lunar Section Director Goeff Amery who lived not far away. I joined the BAA in 1974 aged 23. Then in 1980 I started visual monitoring of asteroidal occultations using the predictions by Gordon E. Taylor. I have now recorded more than 30 positive events and been in the shadow of an asteroid for over 500s.
In the last few years i have also video recorded some nice lunar grazing occultations with good timing accuracy.
Professionally I worked in Pharma and later the Agrochemical industry as a physical and analytical chemist, now retired. I coordinate occultation observing for the Asteroid and Remote Planets Section, and the Lunar Section. I am a member of the International Occultation Timing Association, European section. (IOTA/ES).
Local societies Maidenhead, Reading, Chipping Norton