Ever since Greyson was young, he has always been interested in history and the engineering behind it. Starting with ships and moving onto aircraft, by the time he was 13, he was captivated by the ideas of spaceflight, while at a UCLA camp. From that point onward, he began to focus his life on studying spaceflight and the science surrounding it. When he was 14, he got a telescope and began working on his new hobby of astrophotography. Later that year, Greyson came to Wildwood, where he joined WIE. In his first year, and began a project surrounding cubesatellites. He also worked with WISRD to help with Astrophotography. By 2025, Greyson was 15 and officially joined WISRD at the start of his 10th-grade year. In WISRD he continues work on RECON as well as take over the Cosmic ray and Radio astronomy labs. He is also currently the co-President for the Santa Monica astronomy club

Stardate: 10-1-2025

I continued my work from the other day but this time Leo was helping out with process and because of that we got a lot more done, including finishing cleaning of all the lenses as well as organizing them all into their own boxes and labelling them. I think Leo will be a good fit for the lab and seems interested in learning more about it. I look forward to working with him in the future.

Stardate: 9-30-2025

Today I worked on organizing and cleaning the equipment that we have for recon, including wires, adapters and lenses. I was able to reduce it down a good amount

Stardate: 9-29-2025

In class, I worked on ANSYS and continued discussions about the radio telescope as well as NASA’s Student Launch Initiative. Later that day, we headed out at 6:30 to train on the telescope with Joe Wise, Bob, Megan, and the new students who are part of Recon, Guy, Ivan, and Dash. They are all showing a lot of promise. The actual outing itself, however, was a very mixed affair. We attempted to practice aligning the telescope with the two-star alignment. We attempted to use Algenib as our first alignment point; however, a miscommunication led us to try to line up on Saturn. Ultimately, we lined up on a star, believing it to be Algenib. However, due to the fact that our spotter scope was unable to attach, we didn’t notice. We then aligned on Altair as our second star successfully; however, due to the first erroneous alignment, the telescope did not correctly slew onto our target of Saturn. After some confusion and trial and error searching the sky with the scope, we ultimately tried aligning again on what we thought was Algenib earlier. At this point, we suspected that we had made a mistake in identifying the object in the sky. So, after eyeballing the alignment, we were able to line up on Saturn. Due to dust on several of our lenses, we were unable to use the astro cam we have for the telescope; however, we were able to take several photos with phones and a DSLR, due to a lack of an adapter, and in the case of the phones, exposure, we didn’t get any clear photos. We then packed up for the night, leaving the telscope on the roof with a tarp.

Stardate: 9-26-2025

Today I talked to Bob about the Radio telescope and discussed the potential ways that we could continue the project.

Stardate: 9-22-2025

Watched a tutorial about Ansys.

Stardate: 9-18-2025

[Insert Rant about rain]

Stardate: 9-17-2025

Same as the previous day. Had to scrub the RECON training outing due to rain. Will have to reschedule to a non-holiday next week.

Stardate: 9-16-2025

Today I worked on my pitches for the Inquirer, as well as looked into Anyss as a CFD sim for the Areopsike lab.

Stardate: 9-12-2025

Today i went over NASA’s SCaN program or supporting Artemis II. I also was informed about Exoplanet watch from Bob and started to look into it for the future. Finally I also got a recommendation from Megan to look into SLOOH, and program that gives access to high quality telescopes remotely.

Stardate: 9-8-2025

Today I worked on my pitches for my inquirer article.

Stardate: 9-5-2025

Today I worked on scheduling all of the upcoming RECON occultations, as well as making plans to recruit several people to help with setting up the telescope.

Stardate: 8-29-2025

This week, I have been studying particles while waiting for labs to be assigned.

Stardate: 8-22-2025

This week, not much has happened, and I am just signing up for my projects for the year.

9-29-25

Time: 6:30-9:30

Target: Saturn (Training)

Members: Joe W., Megan N., Bob, Greyson W., Guy G., Dash F., and Ivan N.

Result: Successful