About Dean Regas has always been a teacher.  After graduating from Xavier University, with an education degree he taught many different subjects including history, government, science, nature education, and even trail construction. But the stars captured him in 1998 when he began working at Cincinnati's intimate Wolff Planetarium.  It was there that Dean discovered his real passion for space and has since become a national popularizer of astronomy and an expert in observational astronomy, star identification, mythology, and myth debunking. He has written over 100 astronomy articles for the Cincinnati Enquirer and Community Press and writes a weekly astronomy/mythology blog called DeanSpace.  Dean is a contributor to Sky and Telescope Magazine and Astronomy Magazine, and in 2008 he won the Astronomy Magazine "Out-of-this-World" Award for astronomy education.  Dean has been featured on local television and radio news programs, has a weekly segment on Fox affiliate WXIX, and has interviewed renowned scientists for WVXU radio and CET Connect, an online video-on- demand site.  He has achieved the lofty title of Solar System Ambassador and consulted on many projects including A Spin around the Solar System an instructional video for students and Seven Vessels, an astronomical sculpture.  Recently he was named the co-host of Star Gazers, a new twist on an iconic backyard astronomy program made famous by Jack Horkheimer, which airs on over 100 PBS stations around the world.  He has been the Outreach Astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory since 2000 where he has developed his skills as a dynamic public speaker and brings the complicated field of astronomy down to Earth for students of all ages. Dean Regas, Outreach Astronomer Cincinnati Observatory