Richie Jarvis (aka @RichieDeepSky) founded Under British Skies in early 2010 and is a member of the Astronomy.FM Board of Trustees. He is an IT guru by day and an amateur astronomer by night. Richie is also an experienced astrophotographer, whose images have been published in various astronomy magazines, both online and in print. Clear evenings are typically spent in his home observatory attempting to capture more data for his astrophotographs.

Richie has appeared twice on the BBC’s Sky at Night and once on BBC Stargazing Live, as part of the ‘backdrop’. He volunteers as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Ambassador at the Herstmonceux Observatory and Science Centre, where he runs the Meade 16″ LX200 in Dome C on Open Evenings. Richie also regularly gives talks at local astronomy societies.