Hi PROXIMO here . I live in Italy, in a city in Tuscany called Pietrasanta ( in the Versilia area ), which is within a step from the seaside;just about fifty miles from Florence. I'm a designer in marble works and I'm very passioned about astronomical photography ,reading and music. I approached photography late, around when I was 25. I started directly from astro photography . I began with an old olympus OM-1, 'till when, one fine day, I came across in a Nikon FM2 SLR camera...It was love at first using! I really got good time ,in those days, with it and my telescope. My firs experiences in the astronomical photography was not so good ,and those first results really frustrated me! I spent four years under the night sky before reaching decent results. Those first experiences led me to a new approach to the photography ,technical and expressive, and led me to the knowledge ,step by step, of the "tradictional photography. Recently I turn from the analogic photography to the digital ( which I distrusted till that moment )...I have to tell you the truth..I found it very funny and this new rush led me to a new inpirations. Now ,for the astrophoto, I generally use a MEADE Schmidt Cassegrain 8" reflector telescope (F2000mm f/10 ,that I use to reduce to f/6.3),one F 800mm refractor ,and a russian made F 1000mm catadioptric that I use also as guide instrument.
Comments (14)
jedink
awesome pic mate and can i ask, you have taken alot of astronomical photos. You can focus and expand something thousands of lightyears away. Why cant someone point one of these telescopes to the moon and show the luna landing site, and quiet the conspiracy nuts for good??
sharky_
Beautiful.... Excellent capture. Aloha
stuart83
Excellent capture, stunning detail & clarity Stuart
PR0XIM0
by PR0XIM0 on May 9, 2007 3:09:14 am [homepage] [delete] @:jedink Yes,I undestood what you mean;the power of our telescopes on Earth could actually get good images of the landing site,with the LEM and (maybe)the USA flag as well. I think this kind of observation will never be made, for problems of time, money ,and above all for a problem of reasonableness. We have already a lot of images of the landing site ,we could get other images, but we'll always find someone that will say that they are not true . The only reasonable test will be land on the Moon and get the image with their eyes
zulaan
F A N T A S T I C
Cosme..D..Churruca
Fantastic !
Svarg
Superb!
MaydaMason
un altro capolavoro! trovo anche la composizione ottimamente bilanciata... ma la cosa che pilascia a bocca aperta la quantitdi crateri e dettagli mai visti prima!
TwoPynts
When you shoot for the moon, you really shoot for the moon! Awsomely detailed capture, and thanks to you I now know what those little nipples in the newer craters are from! ;']
mark.spooner
Beautiful work!
nikolais
stright into my file...thank you for sharing...never been to the moon before
alhak
WOW...awesome huge shot
athesdan
wonderful capture !
WindchimePhotography
Terrific shot! I so want a telescope now!!