Christopher Go: a Filipino Discoverer

Apparently, I wasn’t reading the newspapers last year. I missed the story that came out on Christopher Go, the Cebu-based Filipino astronomer who discovered that a former white spot in Jupiter had turned red. He was accepted into the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society in September 2006.

Thanks to Charles for the info! Mr. Go’s dedication as an amateur astronomer is simply inspiring.

Browsing through Mr. Go’s homepage, I came across the photos he took of the 2001 Leonids [ Youtube ]. I vaguely remember looking forward to this event and uh, sleeping through it ^^; Not that I had a telescope or anything, but I would’ve wanted to be with friends who’d gathered out in wide empty spaces just to see it.

It seems it’s being predicted that the next meteor storm of such a scale would occur only in 2099.

I suck.

Would be great to be alive in 2099 just to see that, though.