Welcome to my page.
Here I would like to present some information about myself and my passion for astro-optics..
I was born in 1975 in Warsaw, where I live for today. I do not remember exactly when I became interested in astronomy, I remember only, that at the age of 13 years I was already very curious about what can be seen at the sky. Then spending the holidays in the mountains, someone showed Mars and explained , it is a different planet. I was fascinated, that it can be seen so well with the naked eye . After returning home, I managed to buy the book “"In the circle of astronomy"” from which I learned more about the planets and stars. I remember, I read this book in one breath and since then I have been buying almost all books related to astronomy. Then there was the Internet and books were the only source of knowledge.
I started to build my first “telescope”. Like many amateur astronomers, I built my first telescope using spectacle lens with a power of one diopter. I was not disturbed by aberration and shaking assembly constructed of plain boards. I could see moon and its craters - it was something. My next telescope was Soviet “tourist”, in which I swapped the eyepiece for better one, with a shorter focal length. Instead, 20x zoom, I managed to achieve something about 40x. As, the telescope was small, I took it on holiday in the Pieniny. On clean mountain sky, I saw Saturn with rings for the first time.
Much later, when already at college I came to “Polish Association of Amateur Astronomers” on Bartycka street in Warsaw, where I saw a large telescopes made by members of the PTMA. I began to get more interested in grinding mirrors. Then I could already read about this a lot in Internet. I decided to grind and polish my own mirror. Because I have always been do-it-yourself fan I built my first equipment, which helped to make this job less troublesome. Taking into account, that the machine was done in a couple of days mainly from the elements found in a junkyard, (only one rifling was done by turner), machine worked sensationally. During this time, as I wanted to get acquainted with the nuances of the production of optical glass I got engaged in a professional optical plant as “"grinder"”. I had worked there five years, at all stages of the production. I finished my career “ as specialist optician- ” in the department of the thin films. It allowed me to learn all the way optical glass has to pass, from glass block to the finished product. When I worked in that plant I started Complementary Studies for Master of Physics at the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Scienceat Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. I am currently writing thesis about optical thin films.