I was born in 1970 in Vicenza, Italy, and I have been fascinated by the night sky since I was a child. At the age of 14 I took my first image of the night sky using my dad’s film camera, a simple tripod and a wide angle lens and I got hooked, astrophotography bacome my lifelong passion!
Many years have passed since then and work and family led me to relocate to Asia, where I currently live with my family. Nowadays I shoot most of my planetary images from my home rooftop in Singapore while my deepsky images are taken remotely from observatories I set and manage directly (first in Australia and then in Chile, the latter shared with a couple of friends).
Over the years I got many images published in astronomy magazines and books around the globe and I got several images selected as APOD by NASA while others have been used by various scientific institutions and astronomy association and websites. I also won the 2011 “astronomy photographer of the year” competition by the Maritime Museum and Royal observatory of Greenwich in both the deep-sky and robotic sections and had other images shortlisted or running up in the following competition editions.
When I look back over the past three decades, I am amazed by how the technological evolution has redefined what amateurs can achieve, with results nowaday within the reach of relatively small instruments that were not even possible to be achieved back then even with the largest professional telescopes at the time.
Yet, one thing has never changed in me in all these years: the love I feel for the night sky and the desire to see through the immense distances that separate us from those glittering lights..
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