Family: Two grown children
Education: Bachelor's degree in sociology and anthropology, Cornell University; master's degree in creative arts with an emphasis on photography, San Francisco State University
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Photographer Clicks With Shooting Stars
In Person
After Aiming at Guns, John Sanford Searched the Heavens to Find a Picture-Perfect Career
Background: Photographed in Vietnam for the Army 1962-63; photographic technician for IBM, 1964-66; photographed Delta rocket tests for Lockheed Aerospace, 1966-68; professor of photography at Orange Coast College since 1969
Stargazing: Observed first solar eclipse at age 8; founded Newburgh Astronomy Club at his junior high school at age 12; won gold medal in astrophotography at age 16 at the New York state science fair; joined Orange County Astronomers in 1970 and serves as president and newsletter editor; winner of the Bruce Blair Award presented by Western Amateur Astronomers in 1983 for contributions to amateur astronomy; founded Astrostock in 1984, a business providing astrophotography for books and publications; author of "Observing the Constellations," (Simon & Schuster, 1989, translated into five languages); the "Sanford" asteroid, discovered by Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in 1989, was named in his honor; author of a chapter in "The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy" (Springer-Verlag, 1997)
On excitement of a solar eclipse: "You're out there, and everybody starts counting down, and afterward everybody claps and swoons and has all kinds of emotional reactions. You get kind of addicted to it."
Source: John Sanford; Researched by RUSS LOAR / For The Times
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