Steve Troy has been an amateur astronomer since 1988. From 1984 until 1995, he began study of NASA lunar photography directing in-depth research to the study of traditional models of lunar historical geology (stratigraphy). In 1994, he aligned his independent studies with the lunar anomaly research of Richard Hoagland and with research of the Mars Mission (now the Enterprise Mission). He joined the 'lunar-anomalies team' in 1997 and is a primary contributor to Mike Bara's site www.lunaranomalies.com. There he co-authored the series "Who Mourns for Apollo" addressing the lunar hoax issues and has posted numerous papers on his own research done on anomalies seen on raw, analog NASA lunar negatives from both the 1960's-70's Lunar Orbiter and Apollo datasets. He is often used as a reference person for Apollo and Lunar Orbiter photography after building his own microfilm as well as hardcopy and digital library for lunar photography research, and continues to study and document lunar anomalies found on photography of both the lunar near and far-side.