Chad Bender

@chadfbender.bsky.social

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Astronomer at University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. Instrument builder: LFAST, NEID, HPF. Building giant telescopes! Hobbyist woodworker. Decent vinyl collection.

A cardboard house with a black cat inside and a grey cat trying, but failing, to force his way inside
Ceiling vault in the National Academy of Sciences building, with the above message around the perimeter.
Two cats playing. One has buried his head in tissue paper, but the rest of his body is clearly visible. The head is all that matters, right?
A small beehive in a Palo verde tree, swarming with bees
A photo of three copies of the same newspaper section that came out of this morning's Sunday Times
An agave spike with a giant head of flowers and is leaning over to the side.
A small package of candy labeled "The sourest gummies on the planet".
A picture of me standing in an elevator in front of a flyer with a picture of me
A giant agave send out its shoot as a last desperate act before death, and leaving a giant mess behind.
Wooden boards laid out in a garage for inspection.
A wooden dresser being fitted up, on its side in a workshop
A gray housecat pausing halfway up the cat tree
A small bobcat looking at me
A vast array of peppers
A grey cat completely passed out in a cat tree.
A frog swimming in a swimming pool.
Baseball
Bobcat drinking from swimming pool
A hammock
A black cat standing on his hind legs.
Convention center in the background of view from DCA, with planes taking off and taxiing.