and also for this year, we returned to the Colle di Sampeyre

🙂 we missed this place in the Alps, including Maciste (the camper that resists) were 11 months since I moved after my fracture in these meadows of last summer was still parked, accumulating dust! But a providential tire change, and an initial cleaning first, allowed us to get back up there, for now just for…

Supernova 2017dfc "behind" M63

the Supernova 2017dfc behind M63-resumption without us knowing the night of 21/04/2016:) the nova is highlighted with red lines in the first image cropped These darts in Luminance were performed with direct fire ASI1600MM ZWO-C Celestron 11 mirror lock mod. with gearbox Starizona 0.75 x on Skywatcher EQ6 about 2 hours and 30 total integration…

Some profiles of international photographers, who have appreciated our efforts!

For once, no self-promotion, but proud to have received the attention of many professional and amateur photographers whose esteem and admire the exploits. This is because mainly domestically, we had far less acclaim, both in astrophotography and nature photography, and to show that even with modest means, humility and without abusing of intrusive advertising you…

the hard life of the photographer does not pay!

Experienced in spite of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Carson, who was contacted by a major American network running into billions, CBS, to offer only “credit”, that is, the signature of the author, in Exchange for his image, will the crisis is to say, it is sad and disheartening, but the bad habit is this…

Gaia and the mapping of more than 1 billion stars in the milky way

Gaia, cornerstone mission of ESA, will survey all-sky, photometric and spectroscopic astrometrica up to magnitude V = 20, observing a billion sources, on a five-year expected storm. The launch took place at the end of 2013. The mission is funded by ESA, except for the data processing of which shall bear the European astronomical community…

Hundreds of black holes in a star cluster in the milky way

is the finding that took a team of researchers from the British University of Surrey and published in the monthly bulletin of the Royal Astronomy Society that could adequately explain the whims of this star cluster (globular) known as NGC6101, distant 49900 light years away and not visible in the northern hemisphere, but that belongs…

Wind of renewal on catalogs DSO?

A few days ago a post on social network Facebook from Robert Gendler, shared by a friend , a Taiwan stargazer, has aroused my curiosity! Robert, a great American astrophotographer, posted an image created by combining shots of amateur Astrophotographers including Adam Block (known for its beautiful planetary astroimmagine especially) to the data of the Japanese Observatory…