Dr. Robert Gendler

Robert Gendler is a physician who began doing CCD astrophotography in the early 1990's. He spent his first decade imaging from his home using a portable setup. With advances in internet accessibility and worsening light pollution at home he began imaging remotely in 2005 from observatories in the southwest USA and later in Australia. Robert now spends much of his time mining professional astronomical archives and assembling unique composite images from a wide variety of data sources including the Hubble Space Telescope, Japan's 8.2 meter Subaru Telescope and various ground based professional and amateur systems.

Robert has published Four books on astrophotography including "A Year in the Life of the Universe" (Voyageur Press 2006), "Capturing the Stars; Astrophotography by the Masters" (Voyageur Press 2009), "Treasures of the Southern Sky" (Springer 2011) and most recently "Lessons from the Masters: Current Concepts in Astronomical Image Processing" (Springer 2013).

In 2008, he was featured in the PBS documentary "Seeing in the Dark" by Timothy Ferris. Robert's images have been featured in two national stamp series (United Kingdom 2007, Germany 2011). In 2007 he was the recipient of the "Hubble Award" at AIC. Robert's images have been featured by "Astronomy Picture of the Day" 93 times as of this bio. Robert's work has earned him international recognition and in February 2013 the Hubble Heritage team released a multi-panel mosaic of M106 which Robert assembled for them as a special collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers.