About
Me and my Telescope
I am Primož Cigler. Do you want to know more? Read on …
I was born on 11 May, 1990 in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia (so you can calculate how old I am). From the childhood I was interested in photography and stars. I can remember my very young years when we were looking the Moon with my father with general 10×50 binocular. It was spectacular. While I grew up I wanted to go deeper to the Space. I bought my first telescope in 2004 and started exploring the ‘unknown’ universe. Some years before I got Canon SLR camera from my parents and while browsing the web I figured out that I may try to capture something up there. And that’s when everything began.
In 2005 I have bought my current mount (Vixen GP-DX) and in 2006 my primary telescope for astrophotography (Orion Optics Europa 200mm f/4.5). Most of DSOs (deep-sky objects) on this page is captured with this equipment (except some wide-field with lenses).
When I started my astrophotography career I also wanted to show my work to others and that’s when I came across with web-page making. One of my first web-gallery attempts is still avalilable on this link, static html, of course. I was always looking for the ways how to simplify the work and safe the time. In 2006 I started programming with PHP and made my first automated web-gallery. After that I realized that I can make some extra money with web pages and started making them for clients. I am very interested in programming and web development so it’s possible that this will be my real job after the study. Currently, I am studying Physics in University in Ljubljana.
If you are interested in something more, don’t hesitate to contact me. I always like hear some nice words like ‘hey, you have really nice pictures on your page’ or critics to improve my site or images or whatever. I am also interested in programming web applications and development, so if you have a job for me, just let me know 
Capturing the sky on Ravni Log, with meteor -5 mag. in the sky
