Welcome to my portfolio website
I am a Systems/Software engineer currently based out of San Luis Obpispo CA. My passion has always been for space and contributing to humanity's relentless charge of discovery.
Check out my portfolio to see my personal projects, including data analytics GUIs, games, and other content I've produced over the years.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day
2025-04-03 - The Da Vinci Glow
A 26 hour old Moon poses behind the craggy outline of the Italian Dolomites in this twilight mountain and skyscape. The one second long exposure was captured near moonset on March 30. And while only a a sliver of its sunlit surface is visible, most of the Moon's disk can be seen by earthshine as light reflected from a bright planet Earth illuminates the lunar nearside. Also known as the Moon's ashen glow, a description of earthshine in terms of sunlight reflected by Earth's oceans illuminating the Moon's dark surface was written over 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci. Of course earthshine is just the most familiar example of planetshine, the faint illumination of the dark portion of a moon by light reflected from its planet.