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The Pleiades and the Andromeda galaxy
The last weekend of September, I took part in the first edition of the Caprauna Star Party, which took place in the Ligurian Alps, the initial stretch of the Alpine range which is also the lowest and closest to the seaside. The nice venue a... |
Oct 28, 2008 |
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Labor Day's Saturn
On May 1st, 2008, I managed to take this shot of Saturn, most likely the last of this season (which has been haunted by really bad seeing conditions) until the Ringed Planet emerges back from sunlight next winter. All data are on the picture itself. ... |
May 28, 2008 |
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Lazzarotti Optics Gladius CF 315
I've recently had the opportunity to have a very close look at Lazzarotti Optics' Gladius CF 315 telescope, and to actively put it through its paces, and the result was very promising. Click here for the complete review in English! Ho recentemente a... |
May 25, 2008 |
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Saturn and its companions
On March 18th, 2008, the weather was once again clear, but the Foehn wind was sweeping Northern Italy's flatland, as it has (too) often happened during this past winter. No surprise the seeing was really crappy. In spite of that, I managed to pull off ... |
May 9, 2008 |
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Magzero MZ-5m Camera Review
I gloriosi giorni della Sbig ST4 sono da tempo passati. Sono ora a caccia di una camera per autoguida. Ho avuto occasione di provare la ben nota (in Italia) Magzero MZ-5m, che sembra un clone della QHY5 Guider Cam. Comunque sia, la esaminiamo pi&ugra... |
Dec 26, 2007 |
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Two new images...
It's been quite a while since my last post, let alone an astronomy-related one. However, this does not mean I don't have anything to share! As a matter of fact, I do have a fair backlog of images to process and to post, but it'll take a while as I've b... |
Dec 4, 2007 |
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Nine objects of desire?
"Nine objects of desire" is a title of an album by one of my favorite singers, Suzanne Vega. However, in this case the term "round-up" would probably be more appropriate. No matter what you call it, to me it's a nice set of deep-sk... |
Sep 14, 2007 |
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My first crack at CCD image processing
In early August I tried my hand at my newly acquired CCD camera, and above all at manipulating the resulting image. This small report describes all my different attempts to yield the best rendition of M20 (Trifid nebula)'s wispy outer regions. Here's w... |
Aug 26, 2007 |
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Due Articoli di Astronomia
E' passato un bel po' di tempo dall'ultima pubblicazione su questo sito di qualcosa legato all'astronomia; inoltre, non aggiorno la galleria di immagini da oltre un anno, e adesso mi trovo con un notevole arretrato di immagini. Vorrei inoltre risistema... |
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Two Astronomy Articles
It's been quite a while since I last posted something astronomy related; plus, I haven't been updating my image gallery for a year, and now I have a huge backlog of pictures. I would like to rengineer my gallery engine, since FTP-based management with ... |
Aug 20, 2007 |
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Finalmente...
Eccolo. Il mio primo articolo di astronomia è stato pubblicato nel numero di marzo 2007 della rivista Coelum . Questa per me è davvero una fantastica notizia! Volete sapere perché? Allora leggete l'intero post... |
Mar 5, 2007 |
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I made it!
Here it comes. My first astronomy article ever will be published in the upcoming March 2007 of the Italian Coelum magazine. This is really good news to me. Want to know why? Then check out the whole post! |
Feb 19, 2007 |
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Old website updates
Here's the complete list of all updates to my homepage till december 2006: 08/06/06: New picture in the gallery: Comet SW3 fragment B 08/06/06: New pictures of Jupiter in the gallery 21/05/06: Traduzione in italiano dell'articolo sulla Syn... |
Dec 20, 2006 |
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Bound for JavaPolis
On the 13th of december, Fabrizio Giudici and I will be giving a short talk (as a BOF session) on a Java-based parallel computing project of ours. This very application describes an application of parallel computing to image processing, with a view als... |
Dec 11, 2006 |