Nancy Ruth Adams

Born

yes

Astronomical History

I started by enjoying the stars at a summer camp in Western New York. Being a Girl Scout, I was able to volunteer at the Buffalo Museum of Science. I worked in the dome from 1988. Marilou Beebak and Dan(Don't ask me to spell his name) Kugawinski, trained me to work in the solar observatory. After many wonderful years there, I moved to Long Island and received my BS and MS in Astronomy/planetary science and physics from Stony Brook. I am currently working at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The current project I am working on is the AXAF ( Advanced X-Ray Astronomical Facility). This is the X-ray telescope in the Great Observatory series (HST, the Hubble Space Telescope, is the optical one and GRO, the Gamma Ray Observatory, is another).

Parents(aka Da Rents)

Yes, I have rents! Judy and Ray. Judy is a computer teacher who works with Macs in Orchard Park, NY. Ray fixes copiers all over the WNY area . This is a very important job since one cannot function in today's society without a copier. They live in Western New York in a tiny town called Alden.

Siblings

Yup! Gots one of those too! Dawn is a happy worker at Marine Midland(the tall building in the Buffalo picture).She is happily married(his name is Chris) with 2 kids, Nick and Dakota. See the picture on the previous page.

Jobs

I am currently a computer specialist at The Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ( AKA the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory). I work on the AXAF project. We were running calibrations at XRCF in Huntsville Alabama. The mirrors are gone from there and on their way to Ball!

Hobbies

Sewing

CDs

CCDs(Charged Coupled Devices, most astro images are taken with these)

Photography(I'm learning!)

Biking

Aerobics(any one else watch It Figures with Charlene Prickett??)