At the time, Piere Lamsan was only an amateur astronomer, although he had several telescopes at home with which he could look at the stars, they gave him little more than to see the moon in more detail, or to see a planet like Venus, as something more than a simple bright point in the sky.
Having retired early due to his health problems, with all the time and life ahead of him to devote to his hobbies, astronomy had become a kind of refuge from loneliness and the greatest expenditure of effort and money in his life.
However, with the arrival of the Internet and the possibility of accessing the images that the new telescopes installed in satellites gave, his interest had increased.
