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My interest in astronomy started around 1965, when my brother and I started to ask questions about the stars. Around 1968 I bought a small Newtonian telescope with 76 mm (3 in) aperture on a shaky altazimuth mount. This instrument was carried around to suitable observing places and also was part of the luggage in the car for the family vacations in England and Italy. After being given a simple equatorial mounting by my father I was able to take pictures of the sky with short-focal-length lenses. But soon after 1971, astronomy no longer was my number one spare-time occupation — motorbikes and girls were much more fascinating.
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Plicht, C. (1996). Red Hill Observatory. In: Moore, P. (eds) Small Astronomical Observatories. Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0999-0_18
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