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What is the Press Saying About NICMOS Circumstellar Debris Disks? [NASA Space Science Update]
Birthplace (Spatial and Temporal)
New York City (NYC), New York
12 October 1955 04:27 EST (JD=2450212.00178)
Home Town
"da Bronx". (The only NYC borough attached to the mainland of the USA.)
High School
Bronx High School of Science (class of 1972)
College (Undergraduate)
New York Institute of Technology (class of 1976; B.S., Physics)
College (Graduate)
University of Florida (class of
1985; Ph.D., Astronomy)
Outside Interests
* Eclipse Chasing (now that IS an "outside" interest)
* Caving (hmmm... I guess this is an "inside" interest)
* Photography
* Classical Music
* Cooking
* Introducing Egg Creams to folks in remote corners of the globe
General Scientific Interest
* The low-luminosity end of the stellar mass function
* Stellar evolution
* Formation and stability of stellar and planetary systems
* Circumstellar and Protoplanetary Disks, Circumstellar Material
* Brown Dwarfs, EGPs and the transition from stars to planets in the mass-spectrum
* Stellar Populations
* Binary Stars
Past Major Scientific Areas
* Determination of stellar diameters and duplicity by lunar occultations
* Numerical Modeling of Stellar Structures and Evolution
* White Dwarf Stars
* Wolf-Rayet Stars
* Eclipsing & Interacting Binary Stars
* Asteroids
Spouse: Karla Yrs Rahman-Schneider
Child: Maia* Alice Rose Schneider
* 20 Tauri, in the Pleadies, V=3.86, sp=B7III "...and queenly Maia...by the will of Zeus illustrious... ", Aratus, 3 B.C.Personal Biography
In real life (i.e., what pays the mortgage), Glenn Schneider is the Instrument Scientist for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. NICMOS is a second generation instrument which was installed in the Hubble Space Telescope during it's second servicing mission in February of 1997.
Glenn Schneider is an UMBRAPHILE. Literally a "shadow lover", but properly applied, one who is addicted to the glory and majesty of total solar eclipses. Those who have basked in the moon's shadow will know what I mean without further explanation. Those who have not may have difficulty in understanding that umbraphillia is not only an addiction, but an affliction, and a way of life. The real raison d' etre for many of us. The more common and prolific term "solar eclipse chaser" is nearly synonymous, but somehow does not convey the depth of commitment to this lifelong endeavor. Once every 16 months, or so, (on average) umbraphiles will drop whatever they are doing and trek by plain, ship, train, foot, and camel-back to gather along a narrow strip in some remote God- forsaken corner of the globe defined by the inexorable laws of celestial mechanics. Newtonian physics heeds no national boundaries, and neither do umbraphiles. Wherever the solar photosphere will be extincted, enshrouded by the ashen lunar disk, umbraphiles will revel in the quasi-twilight darkness.
Glenn has basked in the moon's umbral shadow twenty one times since
seeing his first Total Solar Eclipse in 1970. Remaining mobile and aggressively
seeking clear skies, he has suffered the trauma of being clouded out three
only times (a track record, no pun intended, of 86%):
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1970 Greenville, NC USA 2m 53.6s 35° 36'N 77° 22'W 1972 Cap Chat, Quebec CANADA (clouded out) 2m 14.7s 49.1° N 66.7° W 1973 Atlantic Ocean (off Mauritanean coast; HMS Canberra) 5m 45.1s 47° 48'N 21° 12'W 1974 Cape Leeuwin, SW AUSTRALIA 3m 51.0s 34° 21'S 115° 07'E 1976 Mt. Delegate, NSW AUSTRALIA 2m 48.6s 37° 07'S 148° 54'E 1977 north of Bogota, COLOMBIA (clouded out) 0m 38.0s 04° 56'N 74° 47'E 1979 Roy, Montana USA 2m 39.5s 47° 17'N 108° 44'W 1980 Fundisa Kibioni, KENYA 4m 06.0s 02° 56'S 40° 08'E 1981 Bratsk (Tarma), Siberia [former] USSR 1m 50.4s 55° 59'N 101° 18'E 1983 Tunjun Koduk, Java, INDONESIA 5m 15.0s 06° 53'S 112° 23'E 1984 Pacific Ocean (off New Calidonian cost; Cap du Pain) 1m 33.7s 22° 52'S 164° 57'E 1986 N. Atlantic @ 44,000 ft (Cessna Citation II from Rejkavik) 0m 05.2s 59° 23'N 39° 38'W 1988 Banka Island, INDONESIA 2m 26.0s 02° 24'S 106° 16'E 1990 Atka Island, Alaska USA (clouded out) 1m 31.2s 52° 14'N 174° 12'W 1991 Buena Vista, Baja California MEXICO 6m 53.8s 23° 33'N 109° 43'W 1992 S. Atlantic @ 41,000 ft (DC-10 from Rio de Janario) 6m 15.0s 24° 57'S 27° 43'W 1994 Huachacalla, Bolivia 3m 07.7s 18° 47'S 62° 22'W 1995 Ghanoli, Dehli, India 0m 56.9s 27° 04'N 77° 32'E 1997 Chita, Siberia, Russia 1m 53.2s 52° 17'N 104° 17'E 1998 Carribean Sea (off Aruba; HMS Vandeem) 3m 43.0 12° N 69° W 1999 Black Sea (off Bulgaria; Stellar Solaris) 2m 21.0s 43° 07'N 29° 43'E 2001 Lower Zambezi National Park, ZAMBIA 3m 30.5s {to be added soon} TOTAL TIME IN THE LUNAR UMBRAL SHADOW: 01h 06m 19.1s |
Recently, he had the privilege, and joy, of standing in the Moon's umbral shadow for the 22nd time in his life and witnessing the austral-winter solstice total solar eclipse of 21 June 2001 from the Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia. He would love to hear from other eclipse chasers.
Glenn has been writing application programs, almost exclusively in APL, for 29 years. He firmly believes that anyone doing any sort of numerical modeling, analysis, or programming (except for process control applications) in any other language is just wasting his/her valuable time. (In APL the expression of a problem is it's solution - but enough proselytizing). Despite this, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty with machine languages and assembly codes. He has worked on platforms ranging from 1-MHz 8-bit processors such as the Rockwell AIM-65 (6502 uP), to a Cray YM/P. He is of the unpopular opinion that UNIX is a passing fad, and that VMS will outlive the cockroach. Though his favorite platform, by far, is the Apple Macintosh running MacOS. For eleven years he has been distributing astronomy (and other) software applications (written, transparently to user's, in APL of course) for Macintosh computers through a small family-run business, sofTouch APpLications, which now exists in cyberspace at the URL: http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/
Two of his favorite recollections are:
1) Navigating a DC-10, using a Macintosh PowerBook, for a center-line intercept to observe the total solar eclipse of 1992.
2) Arguing with a colleague of similar theological bent, when he was working at the South Pole in December of 1984 as to when they should start celebrating Hanukkah (since the sun would not set for another 3 months).
As always he wishes everyone: "Clear skies, and good seeing!"
OFFICE: Glenn Schneider Instrument Scientist NICMOS Project Steward Observatory, N326 933 North Cherry Avenue University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA Telephone: 1-520-621-5865 FAX: 1-520-621-1891 e-mail: gschneider@as.arizona.edu (business correspondence here) Pager: e-mail me if you need it Cell phone: page me if you need it NICMOS URL: http://nicmosis.as.arizona.edu:8000/
HOME: Glenn, Karla, & Maia Schneider 7742 East Oakwood Circle (32D 16.429'N, 110D 49.629'W) Tucson, Arizona 85750 USA Telephone: 1-520-296-5296 Fax: 1-775-924-5422 e-mail: gschneid@mac.com (personal/sofTouch correspondence here) Personal URL: http://balder.prohosting.com/stouch/
