About me
I was born in 1992 in Budapest, Hungary. I started my studies in my homeland in Tápióbicske, then I graduated from high school in Nagykáta, and finally I got my teacher's degree in 2014 in Jászberény. I taught in Budapest for nine years starting from 2014. Currently, I work as the general manager of the Tápióbicske Forest Program Center and Accommodation, while also serving as an elected Council Member and Chairman of the Finance, Development and Regulatory Committee at the Municipality of Tápióbicske. I have been a member of the Hungarian Astronomical Association since 2005 and in 2018 I joined the Hungarian Astrophotographers Association, where I also have supervisory and judging duties. From 2021 I am a columnist for the journal 'Meteor' published by the Hungarian Astronomical Association.
I became interested in astronomy when I was just 13, thanks to my teachers. In 2005, with the support of my parents, I got my first serious telescope, which I used to make observations for the Hungarian Astronomical Association. It was my dream to be able to present the celestial objects to a wider audience at any time, not only during the telescopic observations which I organised at that time. There were financial obstacles to this, so a major break came.
In 2015, I started my popular and highly successful astronomy study group at the Rózsakerti Demjén István Reformed Primary School and High School. While I introduced many talented children to the world of the universe and we won several national finals of the Children's Science Research Conference, I felt a renewed urge to fulfil my childhood dream of taking astrophotographs. In 2017, I purchased the necessary equipment and since then, I have been steadily making my images, which have since earned several prestigious international and national awards. Over the past years, I have tried to take a new direction in comet photography and make as many unique photographs as possible.
One of my first serious photographs was shortlisted in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year international competition organised by Royal Observatory Greenwich in autumn 2017. Several of my photographs have been featured as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (NASA APOD), and on numerous occasions, I have been recognized as a category winner or a podium finisher in the international astrophotography competitions AstroCamera and ASTRO2021. My most prestigious international award came in the autumn of 2022, when I achieved a third and two shortlisted places in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. I have been awarded the Young Talents of the Nation Scholarship several times, and I am also very honoured to have been recognised by the municipalities of Tápióbicske and Budafok-Tétény. In 2021, National Geographic Hungary selected one of my images as one of the most beautiful astrophotographs of the year, and I have also been awarded the Picture of the Month or Picture of the Day in various competitions organised by international and national professional organisations.
As an astrophotographer, I pursue a dual mission: striving to provide an aesthetic experience while also promoting scientific education. My work regularly appears in the country’s most prominent media outlets and has been exhibited in several prestigious museums, including the National Maritime Museum in London and the Hungarian Natural History Museum. I consider one of the highlights of my professional career to be my discovery in January 2025 of the complete disintegration of the nucleus of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), an event that generated significant international attention within the scientific community. In recent years, my exhibitions and lectures have further reinforced my commitment to sharing the beauty and scientific value of astronomy with as wide an audience as possible.
