Robert started taking astroimages from his driveway in suburban Connecticut. He then spent several years imaging remotely from places like New Mexico and Western Australia. More recently Robert has been spending his time assembling hybrid images from multiple data sources including the Hubble Legacy Archive, the Subaru archive, and other professional and amateur image data. Many of these images have been featured on "Astronomy Picture of the Day" and in various books and magazines. Robert was awarded the Hubble Prize for Astrophotography in 2007 and is the author of three books on astrophotography (A Year in the Life of the Universe, Capturing the Stars, and Treasures of the Southern Sky).