David Sliski

David Sliski currently works as an Observational Astronomer at Maria Mitchell Observatory and is presently preparing to publish, in co-authorship with other MMO researchers and students, a new method to extract emission lines using narrow-band filters and thereby better classify certain variable stars. His past work includes data analysis of the environmental channels at the LIGO gravitational wave observatories; hardware design to “squeeze” laser light used in third-generation gravitational wave detectors; spectroscopic and photometric data acquisition of the re-entry of European Space Agency’s ATV-1; work on brown dwarf surveys using SPITZER Space Telescope data; and hardware design for the OSETI project. He is also an avid amateur astronomer and proud owner of a 1860s Reinfelder and Hertle mahogany refracting telescope. A recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts, he has also served as the Director of the UMass-Amherst Orchard Hill Observatory 2008-2010, and he is a regular attendee of the annual Stellafane Convention.