Eddie Trimarchi

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I have traditionally been against having a personal biography on the internet preferring to remain safe in the security of anonimity. My mind was changed due to the sheer number of repeated requests for information about me by people who have visited my web page. Ok... two people asked and neither repeatedly but... thats enough for me.

Introduction

I was born at around 11pm on March 27th 1962 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. According to tabloid astrology, this makes me an Aries, although anyone with the means can find out that the sun at the time was smack in the center of Pisces. It was also about to occult PGC:01647 at the time, a dim and distant magnitude 17 galaxy in Pisces. This paragraph should sum up my opinions on modern astrology and astronomy.

To see a galactic cluster in angular proximity to the sun when I was born and more proof that Einstein was a genius, click here .

Education

I gained a Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing from Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga in 1991, then moved to Brisbane in 1992 to do Honours at the Queensland University of Technology, graduating in 1993.

Employment

After 11 years as a corporate database developer, I am currently in hiatus and devoting some quality time to my passions, working with great vigour on AstroShed products and services. These include software development for astronomical image-processing related tasks as well as printing and publishing high-quality images of southern celestial objects taken from the Tin Shed Observatory.

Even though it is a simple backyard shed, AstroShed is producing some of the finest astronomical images taken from Australia which are printed in sizes of up to A2 with an archival-quality 7-ink pigment printer.

Although running all of AstroShed's activities is time-consuming, it is still a hobby and I am available for suitable employment. If you would like to see my resume, it is here resume.doc

Astronomy

I became interested in astronomy at the age of 10 when I requested (demanded) and surprisingly got, a 2.4" Tasco refractor telescope for Christmas. This telescope saw me through for many years and I loved using it even though I never really got past the planets, I did manage to see some globulars and the great Orion nebula that cemented my interest in astronomy for life. I am now what you would call a bonafide fanatic, hooked on standing outside in the dark and looking at the sky.

When I was 11 I mailed a letter to the British Astronomical Society office in Sydney asking what a small child had to do to be an astronomer and I still have the reply. It basically stated that one had to acheive a University degree majoring in Mathematics and Physics, graduating in the top 5% and even then, jobs were scarce. This was in 1973 and unfortunately at this time I had already decided that numerical division was too hard, so this letter was a real blow to me at that tender age. I quickly decided to be an Astronaut instead and drive a space lorry between the stars. Surely anyone can do that.

Since giving up any aspiration to be a professional musician, I have managed to acheive the means to buy some real astronomical equipment and take beautiful photos of dim and distant astronomical objects. I have a web page devoted almost entirely to this and my observatory, the Tin Shed Observatory .

Photography

I had a brief stint with emulsion photography in the 80s. Here is a selection of the ones I like best.

5 minutes on Military Rd. Cremorne. This is what busy Military Rd looks like if you drive along it after dark while holding the shutter open for 5 minutes. There are all sorts of things visible in the chaos. I had this one blown up to poster size and it is amazing.	Crackers! A timed exposure of a row of Tom Thumbs going off.
No More TV I always wondered what was happening on the television screen when you turn the TV off. This is it. I had to get a friend to turnoff the TV at the same instant that I took the photo.	Sunset on another world This is multiple exposures on a single frame taken through a lens out of a pair of welding goggles at different focal lengths to get the effect of sunset on a planet in a multiple-star solar system.

Music

When I was nine, my older brother Michael, then 12, decided that he wanted to play the drums and asked my parents for a drum kit. Being something of a hanger-on at the time, I decided I wanted to play the drums too, so I said 'Me too'. My brother replied that I couldn't learn the drums too, so I said ok, the guitar then, which was probably a blessing for my parents not having two kids banging drums all day. Learning the guitar, and music in general was one of the best things I ever did. The music I like most is rock without the roll, but I have learned to appreciate many forms of music as a consequence.

I'm currently having a lot of fun recording and playing with local original band Camel Toe! Made up entirely of Morris International I.T. professionals. (Did I already say that?) But we can Rock! You can check us out at MP3.COM


My personal favorite is Muthafunk....

If you got doen to here, Thanks for reading!