Some words about me

Me from the Pic du Midi observatory

Let me introduce myself. I'm a French  amateur astronomeur, I live in Savigny-le-Temple (UAI observatory # B00), about 35 km south-est from Paris, France.

I was born in 1971 in Chauny ( Aisne county, France) then I followed my parents to Bourges (Cher county). Then Bouches du Rhone, finaly the Parisian area since 1982. I travelled extensively as a child. My background is mainely scientific. My major in college wa phisic (1993). I was introduced to astronomy when I was very young ( I don't remember precisely when). I was always surounded by astronomical litterature and my parents gave me my first 2 inch refractor (with which I was unable to see anything) when I was 9. Then in 1986 my parents gave me my first true telescope, a 60/800 SBS refractor on an equatorial mount. This one spent 2 years in the closet, but the spark ignited early1988 ( when I was 16) with my first subscription to " Ciel et Espace". Since then I never stopped.

Telescopes upgraded ( in 1988 a Vixen 5 inch reflector, in 1991 a 8 inch Meade Schmidt Cassegrain, then in 1996 the Takahashi TSC-225, and lot of home made telescopes for me and for friends ...) I built the Quasar 95 astromy association ( created in October 1988 and I was in charge until 1995). I became instructor ( Aniane observatory, La Villette Planetarium and with a variety of groupe, magazine editor as well). After my move to south of France in summer 2017, I founded a new astronomy club at La Bastide des Jourdans. His name is Luberon Sud Astro.

Astronomy goes beyond a passion, it is a life style for me. Because of my deep interest in astronomy I chose to pursue a careere in high performance optic. I worked in several high performance optics compagny (Reosc, Sedi-Ati, Winlight).  In addition, on my free time, I worked with SkyVision compagny and after I founded the Vertex compagny for designing and made telescope parts.

List of my published articles

List of my published pictures

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