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Kurt Schreckling (born 1939) is a German technician, who pioneered home-constructed
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engines for
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. He is also an
amateur astronomer Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers ...
specialized in optical measurements. The asteroid 489603 Kurtschreckling was named in his honor.


Career

His design was constructed using hand tools, and has a wooden compressor and a bent metal
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. It was fitted into a
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that flew successfully. He won various prizes and wrote books about this field of research. Jet engines following his design are designated with a K, and J for Jesus Artes (his co-developer), for example ''KJ66'' Years later and being retired he became an innovative well known developer for high end amateur astronomy components in the field of
amateur telescope making ''Amateur Telescope Making'' (''ATM'') is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at ''Scientific American''. The books cover various aspects of telescope construction and obser ...
(ATM). Having worked in his professional career as a physicist and measurement engineer in a German DAX-Company Kurt Schreckling introduced advanced opportunities and unorthodox ways to optimize and measure telescopes for ambitious amateurs on a high quality level regarding surface quality, light weight construction while permanently compensating different optical aberrations. His ideas for improving telescopes and their optical perfection have become legendary in the German-speaking countries in the amateur telescope maker scene. Kurt Schreckling is active in various
amateur astronomer Amateur astronomy is a hobby where participants enjoy observing or imaging celestial objects in the sky using the unaided eye, binoculars, or telescopes. Even though scientific research may not be their primary goal, some amateur astronomers ...
forums in the internet.


Awards and honors

Asteroid 489603 Kurtschreckling, discovered by Richard Gierlinger at the Gaisberg Observatory in 2007, was named after him. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 July 2018 ().


Publications

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References

1939 births Living people German engineers {{Germany-engineer-stub