Welcome to my World Wide Web pages!

Glad you could make it here. Some people can't find their way here from the top page amazingly enough. Anyway, this is a ``Beta'' version of a home page as well as some links to pages and places I'm going to use later. There's two versions of this file right now...

Vance (white background)
Test (face background)
I haven't decided which one to use yet, though I'm leaning toward the face background. Of course, if you're using mosaic, depending on which version, you don't see the backgrounds at all, and with lynx, heck, not even the pictures!
These pages use HTML 3.0 features and look best with a browser that supports features such as backgrounds, tables, centering, image alignment, font sizes, etc. such as Netscape 1.1+ (also known as Mozilla).
Do you have the most current version of your web browser? Perhaps you should check, though now that City Net is no longer updating it, it isn't as useful.

Aren't you sick and tired of seeing this ``Under Construction'' picture all over the web???

Well, I am!!!

Screw this => <= Screw this

Short Bio

Vance was born at the Center of the Universe: New Jersey, 50 years to the day after the birth of Wernher von Braun (father of the Saturn V rocket that sent men to the Moon), grew up in San Diego, California, received a Bachelor of Science with Honor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, received an MS in Astronomy from Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona and now works at its Lunar & Planetary Laboratory situated in sunny Tucson, Arizona with the Cassini Saturn Orbiter project.

Things/Projects I've worked on/done

Desmearing Voyager images of Jupiter's ring to find structure
Searched for Neptune satellites and Halley's comet at Palomar 60" and 200" telescopes
Space Telescope's Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC-1) filter transmission profiles
Stimulus operator for WF/PC-1 Thermal-Vacuum tests at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Circulation manager for the California Tech (Caltech's paper)
Finding Quasars with the CCD Transit Instrument using photometry
Search for asteroid dustband using Voyager images taken at high inclination relative to the ecliptic plane
Mount Graham site testing
- Used 12" telescope pair to measure atmospheric jitter on various prospective sites
- Collected an analysed micro-thermal data in 20+ overflights of Mount Graham and Mount Hopkins in a Beechcraft Bonanza
Worked with Jet Propulsion Laboratory developing algorithms for VICAR program NAV
Voyager 2's Neptune encounter at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
28 Sgr stellar occultation of Saturn's rings
Stellar occultation of Jupiter
Neptune ring arcs
Variability of Saturn's ring ``spokes''
Quality testing of VICAR Cassini routines

Organizations

Pages

Refuting misconceptions about me
My ``home'' page
Toyvax page
Kindergarten Report Card (back to top)
Story of my Neptune ring discovery
Betaphile Club 1988-1991
Political connections
San Diego Eclipse
Vance hiding
Planet positions at Birth
Caterwaul page

Pictures

Caltech Senior picture (200in Palomar telescope)
Parents: Wedding and Now
Voyager Neptune Imaging Team (front row, most left)
One of my favorite games
Me at 3 years

Last modified on May 11, 1997 by Vance Haemmerle
vance@toyvax.Glendale.CA.US