Amateur astronomical activities

For many years, I have been an active amateur astronomer. I have been giving numerous talks in amateur astronomical associations and at various meetings. I have also written many popular articles, mostly about CCD image reductions, in a magazine for danish amateur astronomers, ``AmatørAstronomen'' (for which I was also a member of the editorial staff). From 1995 until the publication of the magazine was stopped at the end of 1998, I wrote the ``Solar System'' pages of each issue.

Some further highlights:

• 1989-1995: Member of the board of ``Astronomisk Forening for Sydsjælland'' (The Astronomical Association of South Sealand).
• 1988-1993: Participated in a course on photoelectric photometry at the Copenhagen Public University (``Folkeuniversitetet''). Carried out a long-term monitoring project of the eclipsing binary SAO 23229 using the Brorfelde 25 cm telescope.
• Active member of the ``Boserup Amateur Observatory'' (BAO) since 1990. Wrote data acquisition software for a CCD camera taken into use in 1991 (as one of the first amateur observatories in Denmark). Wrote a complete PC-based Telescope Control System for the telescope from scratch, including an autoguider system based on a second small CCD camera.
• 1998: ``Author of the Year 1997'' in Astronomisk Selskab (the danish Astronomical Society) for an article about the Magellanic Clouds in Astronomisk Tidsskrift.