Kurt WOLFARTSBERGER has studied at the Technical University of Vienna mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) and since Highschool (Bundesrealgymnasium in Steyr) time his hobby is astronomy. His parents have always supported him very much so far and bought a small refractor telescope from KOSMOS 50/500 mm for me, which I often used during night time to observe some moons of planet Jupiter. I also have found a hobby astronomer collegue in Steyr, who has built his own oberservatory in the garden: Wilhelm AURACHER. And he was very professionel in grinding and polishing of lenses and mirrors for selfmade telescopes. I purchased from him my first Newton mirror telescope 100/1000 mm. One of his selfmade telescopes today is still running at the Gahberg oberservatory in Weyregg of 'Sternwarte des Astronomischen Arbeitskreises Salzkammergut', were I became a member of since my retirement. I have also close contact to Josef HAGER, who is very active at the Gahberg observatory. I had the chance to use one of his telescopes a Newton N200 - 800 mm F4, which I have used whenever the weather had clear sky for taking photos in the past. Today I use the two refractor telescopes APO 80 - 480 mm and APO 115 - 805 mm mounted on the iOptron GEM28EC together with the camera NIKON Z6 suitable for shots up to 2 minutes individual exposure times.
LINK zu: The moon and the sun
LINK zu: My equipment
