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Gary joined the staff of MMA in July 2007 as a consultant. He has over 50 years of experience as a consultant, professional engineer, amateur and professional astronomer. Mr. Walker is past CCD Chairperson, Secretary and President of the AAVSO. Gary is retired as Director of Engineering of Navigation Products for Northrop-Grumman Corporation where he enjoyed a 30 year career. 

Gary was deeply involved in the selection of the Association’s RC-24 inch and CDK17 Telescopes in 2007/2008. Mr. Walker was the first amateur to submit a CCD and sCMOS Observations to AAVSO and has over 111,000 variable star observations. He is also actively involved with teaching the REU Summer students with aspects of Telescope Operation and Data Reduction. He holds 5 Patents in the diverse fields of Gyroscopes, Borehole Survey Tools, Full Range Ribbon Loudspeakers, and Turbulence Control Devices in Disk Drives. Mr. Walker holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree from MIT in the fields of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.

Favorite Nebula

My favorite nebula is the Orion Nebula in the winter skies. It was the first one I saw, is one of the brightest, and most spectacular in the skies, and remains my favorite.