Martin is currently Director of Professional Development for Sky-Skkan, a digital planetarium company, and he trains planetarium staff to use the DigitalSky® software for creating innovative live planetarium shows. He is a former President of the International Planetarium Society 2001-2002. Representing Sky-Skkan, he attended the first White House Star Party in October 2009 and introduced the first family to a digital planetarium experience on the South Lawn of the White House. He moved from England to the USA in 1991 to direct the Buhl Planetarium at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA. In 1997 he moved to Wichita, KS, to oversee construction and operation of the Boeing CyberDome theater at Exploration Place. In addition to a life in professional planetarium world, he’s a lifelong amateur astronomer who grew up in England, served as a council member of the BAA and the Society for Popular Astronomy, and was involved in forming the local Newbury Amateur Astronomical Society. His first embryonic lecture was for Reading Astronomical Society, which loomed large in his formative years. He is a contributing editor for Astronomy magazine, and co-authors the Night Sky column with Alister Ling. He is author of four books and has written numerous planetarium shows. Martin has filmed total eclipses of the Sun for television (1995 and 1998), and enjoys astronomical photography from his own home-built observatory near Wichita, KS. He earned a bachelor of science degree from University College London (England) in Astronomy. Martin is an adjunct lecturer at Wichita State University and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In case you didn’t notice, his passion is teaching astronomy to wide audiences.