Kris Koenig, CEO, shares his love of astronomy with the public through his unique outreach efforts, photography, and multimedia products. His work has taken him all over the world, including most of the major observatories in the western hemisphere. Kris is also founder and director of one of the most successful community observatories, and the nation’s only outdoor planetariums in the country.
Kris Koenig is a video producer from the ground up. Before founding Interstellar Studios, his expertise in camera work, interviewing, lighting, editing, and production management was demonstrated in the ten-hour PBS telecourse “Astronomy: Observations and Theories”, for which he won two Emmy® Awards in 2006, for Instructional Programming and Outstanding Non-news Writer. His footage has been used in National Geographic productions, and his astrophotography graces the covers of nationally-acclaimed astronomical textbooks and appears in various publications and videos.