Space

You've found the Dan Birchall who:

• Earned a Graduate Certificate of Science in Astronomy from Swinburne
• Observed 300+ half-nights for the Nearby Supernova Factory and SNFactory II
• Observed at the UK Infrared Telescope for a night or two
• Operated the University of Hawaii's 88-inch telescope
• Operated Japan's national Subaru Telescope
• Operated various telescopes in various places for MIT's Lincoln Laboratory
• Visited numerous classrooms for Journey Through The Universe
• Volunteered at the Visitor Information Station on Maunakea
• Was a laser spotter at the W.M. Keck Observatory and Gemini Observatory

In alphabetical order, my affiliations have included:

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory
• National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii
• Swinburne University of Technology
• University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
• University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy

If you're looking for a Dan Birchall who has done something else in space science, it may or may not be me.  Please contact me to be sure one way or the other.

The astronomy-related Birchalls of Australia - grad student Eloise and software engineer Michael - are either unrelated to me, or related so distantly that I don't know how we're related.