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About Ted

A-2Ted & TelescopeTed Wolfe has been looking up at the night sky through telescopes for over 40 years. He has been an astrophotographer since 1998, when he constructed one of the first remote, robotic, amateur observatories in southern Florida.  Recently, he moved his telescope to an extremely dark site in the northern Atacama desert in Chile.

Published Magazine Photos
Since 2000 over 25 of his images have been published in Astronomy Magazine or Sky & Telescope.

Touring Exhibits
Large scale exhibits of his space pictures have appeared in a number of science museums, universities, libraries etc.

A one man exhibit of over 30 examples of his work ran for a 20 month period at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.

Other of his exhibits have appeared at the Miami Museum of Science, the National Roger Tory Peterson Institute, the Tampa and Orlando Science Museums, the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame, and other sites.

Permanent Exhibits
His work is on permanent display at the Center for Space Studies at the University of Florida, and the Jordan Science Center at the University of Notre Dame.

Articles
Ted has written over 100 monthly columns for the Naples Daily News since 2010. https://www.naplesnews.com/search/?q=Ted+Wolfe+space


In addition he wrote a 5 page article in the October 2021 edition of Sky  & Telescope on remote imaging.      https://skyandtelescope.org/sky-and-telescope-magazine/inside-the-october-2021-issue/


Professional Papers

In October 2022 Ted  discovered the  colossal size of the tidal tail formed by the merger of 2 galaxies designated  Arp93. The tail extends for an estimated distance of 700,000 lys. in the constellation Aquarius. The finding was published in the Journal of the American Astronomical Society. 
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2515-5172/ac9d3e

Affiliations
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Everglades Astronomical Society, and actively participates in their various public outreach programs on astronomy.

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