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Nik Szymanek
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From: England
Email: nik@ccdland.co.uk
WebSite: www.ccdland.net
Nik Szymanek is a lifelong amateur astronomer based in Essex, England.
He is a keen astronomical photographer and regularly travels to La Palma
where, apart from taking CCD images and widefield night sky photographs, he liaises
with the regular staff to produce public relations pictures and a DVD
video for the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes. Recent work has included
processing of images taken with the three ING telescopes, some of which
have appeared in prestigious magazines such as Sky & Telescope,
Astronomy, Ciel et Espace, Astronomy Now and The Sky at Night magazine.
A Public Understanding of Science grant from the Particle Physics and
Astronomy Research Council (PPARC) led to a visit to the Mauna Kea
Observatory, Hawaii, in 2004 for public relations photography and
astrophotography. He is also a regular user of the 2 metre robotic Faulkes Telescope on Hawaii
(and Siding Spring, Australia) and is helping to develop new imaging and
processing methods for use by students with the Faulkes Telescope.
Back in the UK, Nik is a regular supplier of high-quality images to many
magazine and book publishers and has appeared on the BBC’s “The
Sky at Night” and “Final Frontier” astronomy programmes and also the
BBC’s “All Night Star Party”. Other interests include lecturing to
astronomical, photographic and science societies as well as schools and
non-astronomy-related institutions. He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Astrophysics Research and is responsible for teaching undergraduate students instrumentation and telescope imaging techniques.
students with the Faulkes Telescope.
In July 2004 Nik traveled to Berkeley, California to receive the
prestigious Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s Amateur Achievement
Award for 2004, in joint recognition of his image processing expertise
and public outreach. Recent projects include the publication of an
astronomical picture book, Infinity Rising, designed to help people
starting out in photographing the night sky.
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