AAVSO Observer Code
HCW
Affiliation
None
Full Name
Carl Hergenrother
Location
Tucson, AZ, US
Background/Interesting Fact
I am a long-time amateur astronomer. Though most of my amateur observations have been of comets, I have recently started making visual and remote CCD observations of novae.
Professionally I am an astronomer at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona. My work has focused on comets and asteroids, in particular color and lightcurve photometry of very small asteroids. Nowadays, I am primarily involved with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission to retrieve samples of the near-Earth asteroid, (101955) 1999 RQ36.
Professionally I am an astronomer at the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the University of Arizona. My work has focused on comets and asteroids, in particular color and lightcurve photometry of very small asteroids. Nowadays, I am primarily involved with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission to retrieve samples of the near-Earth asteroid, (101955) 1999 RQ36.
Website URL
http://transientsky.wordpress.com/
