Square Dancing Astronomy

Several weeks ago I went to a very good lecture given by an astronomer named Rob French. Recently he has been devoting his astronomy life to studying the F Ring of Saturn.

First, I learned that the rings of Saturn are named by letters (didn't know that). The outer ring is the F Ring (didn't know that). Also I learned that the moon Prometheus (never heard of it) sometimes gets too close to the F Ring and creates a series of wiffs, as seen in the image.

Rob's lecture was excellent. But the real story was not the F Rings. The real story is that Rob is one of the world's leading Square Dance Callers! He's already booked up for a lot of this year. See his impressive booked up schedule. In 2005 and 2009 he even had gigs in Japan!

See a You Tube video of his calling here.

Rob is a true Renaissance Man. If you are in the need of any astronomy or square dance services, Rob's contact information can be obtained at rfrench.org.