James Scotti:
CLASS OF 1978
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Woodway High SchoolClass of 1978
Edmonds, WA
University of ArizonaClass of 1983
Tucson, AZ
Curtis High SchoolClass of 1978
Staten island, NY
Simon Baruch Public School 104Class of 1975
New york, NY
Garfield SchoolClass of 1972
Sault ste. marie, MI
James's Story
Life
I am a Planetary Scientist working at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. I study comets and asteroids as part of the Spacewatch Project, observing monthly on Kitt Peak. I am als...Expand for more
o an amateur Space Artist and photographer. I enjoy softball, golf, space exploration, flight simming and computers. I graduated from the University of Arizona witha B.S. in 1983. I'm married with 2 kids.
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![Been a while since my last painting, but finished the first of a few paintings with Apollo 11's 50th anniversary in mind. This one imagines a Saturn V rocket lifting off from a spaceport on an Earth-like moon of a Jupiter-](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/7/5/a/0/100179118679_1644539243800.jpg)
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!["Contact Light" is my 2nd Apollo 11 tribute painting depicting the moment that the probes on 3 of the 4 landing pads touched the surface of the Moon and just a moment before the crew of the Eagle shut the engine off and set](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/4/9/8/4/100179003540_1641813250957.jpg)
![8 years ago today we had a memorial flyover of jets to honor the memory of Tom Gehrels, my boss and friend who founded Spacewatch. I did not know on that day that we had less than a year left with my friend David Harvey. He](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/3/c/0/a/100178960579_1641206509584.jpg)
![Just before sunset, I heard about a World View launch of a high altitude balloon launched about an hour earlier and dashed outside at the UofA to see if I could see it. It was a bright object low in the east-southeastern s](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/4/d/5/f/100178916820_1640602433543.jpg)
![Hey, I finally saw comet NEOWISE tonight from Kauai after getting out of the mandatory 14 day quarantine. Of course we had clouds around and I didn't have a tripod, but I improvised. Here's my image with some image proces](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/6/0/8/7/100178425862_1633503953485.jpg)
![Comet NEOWISE just above the clouds with the setting crescent Moon below the clouds on the left. You can see the Big Dipper above and right of the comet.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/d/1/5/e/100178388253_1632912698301.jpg)
![The comet with lots of clouds about shows a curved dust tail curving off to the upper right and a faint bluish gas tail at about 1 o'clock.. The crescent moon is setting behind the clouds in the lower left.](https://s3.amazonaws.com/cmpb/medium/6/2/3/4/100178346790_1632359192966.jpg)