Martin Alvey (with son Nate) has been an active amateur

astronomer for about the last 4 years.  He observes with

his 18 inch Starmaster dobsonian telescope.  Martin had

his Messier certificate, and almost finished his Caldwell

list during this visit to Marieth for the new moon weekend

in June 2004.  Martin is also about a quarter of the way

through his Herschel I list.