Collecting Photons
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. (Dante, Inferno XXXIV)
Van den Bergh 152 in Cepheus
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle. (Dante, Inferno XXXIV)
Van den Bergh 152 in Cepheus
Welcome on my gallery of astronomical subjects holding twenty discontinuous years of film and digital imaging. The way I see it, all those photons that traveled for so long would be wasted without anybody caring about them. I try to collect at least a few...
My observatory is in Tuscany, on a hilly town nearby Pisa. Since the spring of 2005 I have mounted my telescope on a permanent pier but beforehand I traveled around searching dark spots for imaging, reaching as far away as Joshua Tree or the Andes. From the end of 2006 I have built a permanent observatory around the pier and this has been the single best thing I have ever done for my astrophotography work!
The web site is, and probably will always be, a work in progress and it is often updated with the latest imaging efforts. Thanks for visiting.
What's new!New pictures added to the web site in the last year
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EquipmentSomething about my equipment and the building of an observatory.
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Nebulae - winterFrom right ascension 0 hr to 12 hr (Cassiopea to Monoceros)
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Nebulae - summerFrom right ascension 0 hr to 12 hr (from Scorpio to Sagittarius)
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Narrow Band Imaging
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Galaxies
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Planetary NebulaeSmallish and roundish fuzzies.
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Star clustersLots, and lots of stars and some nebulae, here and there...
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Techniques A faint attempt at making my processing clear
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Going places in the Solar SystemComets.
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The Milky wayWide field images of the closest galaxy of all.
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Atmospheres
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Send anything that comes to mind to Gimmi Ratto gimmi@in.cnr.it
Copyright © 1997-2011 by Gimmi Ratto. (March 2011)
