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Michael A. Stecker, M.D.
Los Angeles, California
U.S.A.
Contact information
mastecker@gmail.com
masmd@sbcglobal.net
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website
http://mstecker.com
Stecker Family
http://mstecker.com/pages/stecks&m_fp.htm
http://mstecker.com/pages/steckinfo-ft.htm
Weiss Family
http://mstecker.com/pages/weissfamily_fp.htm
http://mstecker.com/pages/weiss-swf.htm
http://mstecker.com/pages/weissDavid&Nettie.htm
Lehner Family
http://mstecker.com/pages/LehnerFamily_fp.htm
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Biography
I was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1943, but grew up and was educated in Detroit,
Michigan where I attended Hampton
Elementary and Mumford High School. I received the B.S. (1964) and M.D.
(1968) degrees from the University
of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Then it was off to Iowa City where I did
my
internship and a small research project in
cochlear disease at University Hospital. After internship and at the
height of the Viet Nam war, I was "encouraged"
to join the U.S. Army Medical Corps and spent two years on a beautiful Army
Security Agency (ASA) Station in
Sonoma County called
Two Rock Ranch (west of Petaluma, California and about an
hours drive north of
San Francisco). I did my residency in diagnostic radiology at the
University of Southern California’s L.A.
County General Hospital followed by a fellowship in neuroradiology. I have lived
in West Los Angeles
continuously to this date.
Initiation into astrophotography started in 1986 when I
decided to "take a few pictures of Comet Halley", but instead
instead became hooked on the hobby. Most of my astrophotography was done
at 8300 ft. Mt. Pinos – a gathering
site for astrophotographers and observers alike in Southern
California. I
have also done some astrophotography
at the Anglo-Australian Observatory (Siding Springs), Carnegie’s Las Campanas
Observatory in
Chile and Lake
Titicaca, Bolivia. I am a former member of the Santa Monica Amateur
Astronomy Club and the Los Angeles
Astronomical Society. My other interests are travel, scenic photography,
reading and tropical fish.
Astrophotography publications
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Magazines
Angkasa (Indonesia), Astronomy, Astronomy Now (UK), CCD Astronomy (Sky Publishing), Ciel et Espace
(France), Coelum (Italy), Il Cielo
(Italy), Deep Sky (Kalmback Publishing), Discovery Magazine, Observatory Techniques,
Sky and Space, Sky and Telescope,
Smithsonian, Southern Sky (Australia),
Temmon Guide (Japan),
Deep-Sky Observer (Webb Society).
Books
Astro-Box
(Octopus PublishingGroup), Astronomy (New Holland
Publishing), Atlas of Space (Aladdin Books), Bedroom Astronomy (Klutz), The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Stars (J. Kaler), Cambridge Guide to
Astronomical Discovery (W. Liller), , Cambridge Starfinder, Collins Encyclopedia of the Universe,
Comets!: Visitors from Deep Space (Cambridge University Press), DK
Guide to Constellations, DK Our Mysterious Universe, EL for Africa (MacMillan), Exploring Space, Extreme Universe (Channel 4 Books), Eyewitness Astr., Facts at your
Fingertips, Heaven & Earth,
Killers in Space (Pioneer), Solar System (Arcturus), Space Book (Arcturus), Pearson Education Mega Max, Myth of Americas (Anness Publishing), New
Astronomer (Dorling Kindersley), One time World, Philip's Night Sky Atlas,
Philip's Complete Guide To Stargazing, Philip's The Universe (Toucan Books), Space Book
(3D Eye), Spektrum Sternbilder, Secrets of the
Universe (M-Press), Space Encyclopedia (Dorling
Kindersley), Starfire Stars & Planets (The Foundry), Stargazing 2005 (Philips), Stargazing 2006 (Philips), Stargazing
2007 (Philips), Stargazing With With Binoculars, Stargazing With a Telescope, Structures
in Space (Springer-Verlag), Telescope & Techniques
(Springer-Verlag), Through the Eyes of
Hubble (Robert Naeye),
Universal Atlas (Philip),
Universe
(Dorling Kindersley),
Universe
(Marshall Ed.), Universe Bind-Up
(Kingfisher), Young People's Book of Space.
Journals
Radiology, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Angewandte Chemie Internat
Television (BBC)
Extreme Machines III, Space, Comets, Pioneer Universe 2001 Big Bang, Space Odyssey (BBC Worldwide)
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Additional Photos
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Stecker family 1945 (left to right): Samuel, Michael,
Stephen, Shelly
Dr. Martin Huber (right), Director of Space Science at
the European Space Agency and I were both
speakers at the European Astrofest meeting in London, England
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Douglas Richstone (left), Chairman of Astronomy at
the University of Michigan and
Michael Stecker at the Steward Mirror Lab in 2005 for casting of first mirror of
the
Giant Magellan Telescope
(to be largest telescope in the world)
http://mstecker.com/pages/gmtcasting_fp.htm
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