Dr Alan Strauss

Dr. Alan Strauss is the director of the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center and the UA Science Sky School. He earned his doctorate from the University of Arizona’s College of Education and has over 22 years of administrative experience and 10 years of teaching experience at the University.  Alan is a native of Tucson and developed an interest in astronomy at an early age.  He enjoys visual observing and sketching at the eyepiece, as well as taking wide-field photographs of the Milky Way.  Among Alan’s favorite objects to observe are Mars, comets, and eclipses.  His most memorable visual observations are seeing the galactic jet in M87 (through the SkyCenter 32-inch telescope), the Venus Transit of 2012, and the total solar eclipse of 2017.  Alan also serves as a NASA OSIRIS-REx Ambassador.