I am a 35 year old amateur astronomer located just outside beautiful Austin, Texas. The ability to participate in projects like E@H offers interested amateurs like myself a great way to assist ongoing scientific efforts, and it is a pleasure to get involved.

The BAUT team includes members from the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Bulletin Board located at www.bautforum.com -- a marvelous discussion forum dedicated to astronomy and space exploration, as well as refuting astronomical misconceptions and pseudoscientific nonsense.

As Sagan said: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.