Alan Erickson is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems. He joined Adobe in 1996, working on Photoshop and related products. His feature work has included video layers, animation, clone palette, and adjustments palette.

By day, Alan Friedman is an artist, award winning greeting card designer and president of Great Arrow Graphics. By night he is an avid planetary astro-photographer. His images of the planets, sun and moon are featured frequently on NASA's popular wesbites Spaceweather.com and Astronomy Picture of the Day. His techniques for planetary imaging have been the subject of articles in Sky and Telescope magazine and a column at Space.com. Alan enjoys sharing his love for the night sky through public outreach.

By day, Craig Stark, Ph.D., is a professor of neuroscience who studies memory by trying to pull faint signals out of noisy images of brain scans. By night, Craig is an amateur astrophotographer who tries to pull faint signals out of noisy images of deep sky objects.

Darryl retired in 2002 and moved from Toronto to a small seacoast village in Nova Scotia. He built an observatory behind his house with a Home Dome and a 14" Meade LX200. The Meade fork mount has been replaced with a MI-250 GEM with Gemini controller, focusing is with an Optec TCF and cameras include a SBIG ST-2000 and Canon 40D.

He has a degree in astronomy and now that he is retired Darryl can work full time on his two Mac astronomy programs, Equinox 6 and Equinox Image.

Dave is a degreed engineer whose area of expertise in the chemical and petro-chemical industry has afforded him travel to many interesting parts of the world. Retiring from that field after a long and rewarding career, Dave has been fortunate to marry his passion for astronomy with continued engineering interests as Superintendent of the historic Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California.

Paul has been a software developer for the past 35+ years. One would've thought that by now he would have seen the futility of it all and changed careers to be, say, a monk or a groundskeeper. However, a few years ago he decided to stop working for a long succession of idiot bosses and become his own idiot boss. This has worked out splendidly, apart from income that is.