Michael A. Stecker
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Karel Teuwen
Turnhout Belgium |
I do most of my astrophotographic work in my very light polluted backyard with a Celestron 14-inch SCT, Paramount ME mount and SBIG ST10XME CCD camera. For my astro vacations to France I use a TMB152 refractor mounted on a GM2000 QMI from 10Micron and a STL11000. Like most of us, I was bitten by the astronomy bug much earlier. It all began when I was about 10 years old and my father bought me a small telescope. When I looked through it at the moon, it was like heaven on earth! At the age of 15 I was working during vacations to collect the money for a 76 mm refractor. It was with this scope I made the first images of the moon, right behind the scope without any adapter ring. A few years later in the late 1970's I finally bought a C8 for more serious work. This was the beginning of my deep sky exploration. It was off course with film (Kodak 103a spectroscopic). For 20 years (early 1980's - 2000) I neglected my astronomy caused by much work and other interests. However, since 2003 my interest for astrophotography came back and I bought this setup and now I'm even more passionate than ever. I'm even thinking about setting up an observatory at a dark site in France where I can get better results.
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