Gordon J. Garradd

Gordon John Garradd (born 1959) is an Australian amateur astronomer and photographer from Loomberah, New South Wales.

[3][4] He has worked for a number of astronomical institutions in the US and Australia, most recently at Siding Spring Observatory on the Siding Spring Survey, part of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey for near-Earth objects (2002–2011).

[7] Garradd was born in Australia and lived his early life in Sydney, Canberra, Oberon, and Tamworth.

[8] His initial profession was as an accountant, but he left that in 1984 to pursue astronomy and photography full-time.

He is a photographer, mountain bike rider, and solar- and wind-power enthusiast.