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<h1 class="page-title">Just For Fun</h1>
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<h3>A Little Bit of History</h3>
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I was born in Florida, but as part of a military family, I moved around often; I lived in two
different places in Florida before moving to Italy, two more places in Germany, and finally
Colorado.
I've visited many places on top of those, including both within the states and outside.
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In both travelling and living in a variety of places, I've gotten to meet a huge variety of
people and cultures; however, Italy and Colorado are still closest to my heart.
I have family all over the place - from big Texas cities to rural northern Italian towns that
don't even have a high school - so I'm proud of my background. I also speak fluent Italian, am
semi-fluent in Spanish, and am very interested in learning more languages.
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I moved to Colorado in 2011 and have lived here ever since; I'm now attending <a class="link"
href="https://www.colorado.edu/"
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rel="noopener noreferrer">CU
Boulder</a> for aerospace engineering, so I'm here to stay for at least a little longer.
My interest in STEM started very young (I remember observing Jupiter and its Galilean moons from
my backyard in Germany with a tiny refractor) and has stayed with me ever since; I'm so glad to
finally be taking the next steps in exploring my interests.
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<h3>Fun Facts</h3>
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<li>I got into block programming in middle school, moved onto Python and Java in high school, and
now have experience in a variety of programming languages!
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<li>With my telescope, a 10-inch Dobsonian, I can see a huge number of deep-sky targets - especially
from a really dark site, but I can see things impressively well even from my light-polluted
house!
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<li class="hidden fun-facts-hidden">One of my favorite books is J.R.R. Tolkien's <em>The Fall of
Gondolin</em>, but it's slightly frustrating, as the full version of the book was never
finished!
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<li class="hidden fun-facts-hidden">I am half Italian and half American - my mother's whole side of
the family is from the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy, and I speak fluent Italian!
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<h3>My Hobbies</h3>
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During my free time, I have a variety of hobbies I enjoy.
I love hiking, biking, and rock climbing (especially bouldering) - lucky for me, I live in Colorado,
where I have plenty of opportunities to do all of these things!
I have some wonderful biking trails near where I live, and some good friends whom I enjoy bouldering
with when I can.
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I also greatly enjoy photography (photo gallery coming soon) - especially nature photography! I
frequently run into the problem of running out of storage from how many photos I take; I once
took over 1500 on a just nine-day trip!
Some of my best photos are ones I've taken at Cinque Terre, some nice nature photography I've
gotten while camping, and good photos of lunar eclipses through my telescope.
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Speaking of my telescope, I also really enjoy astronomy - it's what really got me interested in
STEM in the first place, and I still enjoy it to this day.
I've spent a long time learning to starhop and find targets by hand - my telescope <em>technically</em>
has a push-to computer, but I've never gotten it to work. Besides, I like the challenge of
finding objects on my own.
I particularly enjoy finding deep-sky objects, such as nebulae and galaxies; some of my favorite
to see are the Western Veil Nebula in Cygnus (especially through an OIII filter in really dark
skies), M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy), and M57 (the Ring Nebula, because it's the first deep-sky
object I learned how to find).
My first non-naked-eye comet was C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) in June of 2022; at around magnitude 8.8
when I saw it, it wasn't too horribly dim, but it definitely didn't stand out either - I'm
really proud I found it!
Someday, I hope to complete the Messier Marathon (finding every object on the Messier catalog in
one night), but for now, I'll stick with finding them in general - I've already seen quite a
decent number of them.
I also really enjoy observing with friends, and I've made some of my closest friends through
astronomy events.
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