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AstroHD - Welcome!

After several years without personal presence on the web, this is my new online home. This site will serve mainly as a documentation platform for my astronomical experiences and adventures - may it be new observations or construction projects.

A real big project I planned and finished in 2014 was the construction of a astronomical observation deck on the roof-top of my house! After research and planning for more than one and a half years, a dream came true within a few days. Now my own observatory is a reality.
Since that time, I am always busy to improve the functions and versality of the observatory and tune and optimize its usage. Interesting improvements and experiences will be documented in my blog.

Equally important to me isĀ  to share the fascination "Space" with others. Since I built my observatory, I was able to build up my own "outreach" programme giving visitors as well as kids in elementary school interesting insights and hopefully creating interest in physics and science.

Cleaning optics with Discofilm

Some time ago I read an article about how the mirrors of large observatories are cleaned professionally. There was also talk about a method of applying polymer films to the optical surfaces and then peeling them off. This is also possible for amateurs!

Read more: Cleaning optics with Discofilm

CCD Workshop 2019 presentations

For the CCD Workshop 2019 in Stuttgart, I was happy to give several talks.

Read more: CCD Workshop 2019 presentations

Edge protection for the table on a Baader pier

If you want to set up the mount in your observatory in a perfect and stable way, you will very likely reach for the steel column from Baader-Planetrium. This has a practical storage table, also made of hard metal - if you ever have bumped your head against it, you know what I mean.

Read more: Edge protection for the table on a Baader pier