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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
30/01/10
Stephen James King – Curiculum Vitae.
Contact Information.
Full name : Stephen James King
First (given) name (no accents) : Stephen James
Last (family) name (no accents) : King
I am also known as : Steve
Mailing Address line 1: Flat 5 ,
Mailing Address line 2 (optional): 64 Bury Road.
City: Thetford.
State/Province: Norfolk. ZIP/Postal Code: IP24 3DE.
Country: United Kingdom.
Telephone: 09 01842 750235.
Primary Email: SteveJKing@hotmail.co.uk
Other Email: Stevejking@ymail.com / SteveJKing812@googlemail.com
Country of Citizenship: United Kingdom
In Case of Emergency contact: Mrs J. Tricker , Little Pieces , Low Road ,
Attleborough , Norfolk.
Tel: 09 01953 498437 Email: jackietricker@hotmail.co.uk

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
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Academic Information
College or University: The Open University.
Location (City, State/Prov., and Country): Milton Keynes , UK
Your academic year (numeric, please): 4 (Part Time) 2009
Select Status: Undergraduate Student
Your academic major: Physical Science.
Your grade point average (numeric, please): 70 %
High School you attended and its location: Sudbury Upper School , Tudor
Road , Sudbury , Suffolk , United Kingdom.
Explanatory Notes: I am studying a 6 year , part time program in Physical
Science with Astronomy & Planetary Science. I have completed year 4 , and
am taking time out to study some 10 point , level 1 , short courses to round out
my understanding , before starting level 3 in 2011. My grade point average is
based on an average of course work and examination grades , as the Open
University take both into account when grading achievement.

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
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Work Experience and Expectations.
Previous Research Experience:
I have not had any experience of new research but have done on-line research
for both astronomy and planetary science courses and also prepared reports
on breaking news and discoveries.
I have passed a week long residential school , OU-SXR208 Observing the
Universe , at the OAM in Majorca , Spain , using 12” Meade Telescope's fitted
with ccd camera or spectrometer , to obtain calibration frames and images
using Maxim DL software which was also used to process the images and
perform photometry and spectroscopy upon them to obtain data for export to
spreadsheet to produce graphs for analysis.
I have made over 80 observations with the 7 m Radio Telescope at Jodrel
Bank Observatory , via an on-line interface and analysed the results in Java
applets in order to produce spreadsheet graphs. This included an H1 spectrum
survey of the milky way as visible from JBO , using observations from other
students and the archive as well as my own observations.
I have also used Micro Observatory & Bradford(UK) Robotic Telescope on-
line , to obtain images which I processed in Micro Observatory 2 & Image J. I
have taken black and white images and opened the image three times , turned
one red , one green and one blue and stacked them to produce a false colour
image.

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
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Knowledge and experience with computers and software.
Operating Systems.
Windows 98/98SE – Experienced.
Windows XP – Intermediate.
Windows Vista home basic/premium. - Experienced.
Linux (Cloudy Skies live cd – Puppy Linux) – Intermediate.
Software.
Open Office (Writer , Draw , Calc , Impress) – Experienced.
Microsoft Office (Word , Excel , Power Point) – Intermediate.
Adobe (Reader9 , Acrobat.com , Air) – Experienced.
Latex (Miktex , Texnic center) – Beginning.
Mathcad 2001i – Intermediate.
Internet Explorer / Mozilla Firefox / Google Chrome – Experienced.
QuickTime / Real / Windows Media Player 11 – Experienced.
Virtual Observatory (Aladin , ds9 , Java Tools , not yet learnt Python) –
Beginning.
Micro Observatory 2 / Image J / Skysight / LTImage – Experienced.
Iris / RegiStax – Intermediate.
Maxim DL / Subaru Image Processor Makali'i – Intermediate.
Gimp 2 / Gimp Shop – Intermediate.

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
30/01/10
Work experience over the past three years:
I have not worked in the past three years as I have been studying for a Bsc in
Physical Science with the Open University and have now passed level 2.
Courses undertaken were :-
Open University Date Level Grade Points
MST121 Using mathematics 2007 1 Pass 30
MS221 Exploring mathematics 2007 2 Grade 4 pass 30
S196 Planets: an introduction 2007 1 Pass 10
S194 Introducing astronomy 2007 1 Pass 10
S283 Planetary science & the search for life 2008 2 Grade 2 pass 30
S282 Astronomy 2008 2 Grade 3 pass 30
SXR208 Observing the Universe 2008 2 Grade 3 pass 15
S197 How the Universe works 2008 1 Pass 10
S189 Understanding the weather 2010 1 Pass 10
S186 Volcanoes, earthquakes & tsunami 2010 1 Pass 10

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Stephen James King.
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Work experience over the past three years:
Jodrel Bank Observatory – University of Manchester.
Date Level Grade Points
Introduction to Radio Astronomy . 2008 1 Pass with Merit 10
Exploring the Radio Universe. 2009 1 Pass with Merit 20
Presently Studying.
S180 Life in the Oceans: Exploring our Blue Planet. - Level 1 , 10 Points.
Long-term career plans:
Upon completion of my Bsc in physical Science , I would like to go on to study
for a research Masters Degree or Phd in Astronomy , if I obtain good enough
grades to do this. Jodrel bank offer a number of positions for research students
and I have studied with them before. The Open university offer only Phd's in
Astronomy and require previous research experience , for which this summer
school at the STScI would be beneficial. My preferred choice would be a
research student placement with yourselves at the STScI itself , as I would like
to work with space telescopes especially hubble as my interest lies with black
holes , Quasars (AGN's) & micro Quasars.
If my grades are not up to the requirements of post graduate research , I would
be looking for a position as research or technical assistant in astronomy in
order to gain more experience possibly leading to a post graduate research
degree.

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
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Extra-curricular activities and interests:
I do not drive and local facilities and my own funds are limited , so my local
activities are mainly barbecue's and get togethers with my wide circle of friends
and trips to the coast with my family , my brother has a holiday home on the
Norfolk Coast in Sheringham near Holt.
I have lively social networking with Facebook , Myspace , Windows live , Twitter
, igoogle & Yahoo , linked together by FriendFeed. I have 25 social network
sites in total , including a LinkedIn profile. I have recently joined the
spacetelescope.org group on daily motion and make use of Open University
materials on Utube & itunes as well as the Open Learning Space.
I use micro observatory and Bradford(UK) Robotic telescope on-line to obtain
images to process and write up reports for. I have images of all the planets and
a number of nebula's & galaxies. I have undertaken a number of the Faulks
telescope exercises from archive data to improve my ability with processing and
analysis software.
I was in army cadets as a teenager and passed my one star badge , activities
inc. Drill , field craft , orienteering , abseiling & .22 / .303 rifle shooting. I also
attended activity holidays with abseiling , orienteering and Canadian and kayak
canoeing.
I was taken on a Nile River cruise in Egypt , I have a great interest in Ancient
Egypt , for my 40th birthday , and flew in a hot-air balloon over Luxor. A year
later my mother , a pensioner , took me to turkey and we spent a day Canadian
canoeing down a Turkish river. A few years earlier I rode a camel & went out in
a glass bottom boat in Tunisia. I have also been on a weekend trip to Belgium.

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Stephen James King.
Curiculum Vitae. Last Updated.
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Letters of Recommendation.
1. Name: Dr M. J. Penston (Tutor). Email: mjp432@tutor.ac.uk
2. Name: Mr R. L. O Brien (Associate Lecturer). Email: rlo@tutor.ac.uk
Additional Information .