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I am Sjoerd Dufoer. I was interested in astronomy ever since I was little. By growing up this fascinations evolved in a real hobby. I was always a fan of SF series as Startrek and Babylon 5 so I think it's in my genes. When I was 15 I received a telescope for my birthday. With that scope I started observing the nightsky. I knew the sky by using binoculars until then so I knew the contellations but the dim deepsky objects were new for me. The first years of my hobby existed about searching and drawing every deepsky object I could imagine. I also did some planetary observations but that was not my real passion. I started where the solar system faded into the interstellar sky.

My mail: sdufoer(at)gmail(dot)com
I live in a small village near Bruges, Belgium. This place is known as one of the most lightpolluted areas of the world so doing astronomy here is almost a nightmare. For my professional life I am a system administrator by the Belgian Federal Government.