Rod Pommier is a surgical oncologist and Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the surgical and other treatments of neuroendocrine tumors. He has been an amateur astronomer since age 12. He started astrophotography 36 years ago, imaging with gas hyper sensitized film and hand guiding the telescope throughout the exposures. He has been writing and publishing articles in Sky & Telescope and Astronomy magazines for 32 years, typically illustrated entirely with his own astrophotography. He is a member of the American Astronomical Society and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.