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About Me I am a physician
currently living with my wife, two children and our Labrador retriever
in Las Rozas, Madrid where we relocated in 2002 after a three years
living in the U.S. My interest for astronomy, space exploration and radio -I am a licensed amateur radio operator, EA4LE and KC2HAX- dates back to my early childhood but the spark that definitely ignited my curiosity and passion for astronomy was watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos TV series during my late teenage years. In the early
nineties I learn of amateur astronomers doing deep sky imaging with a
new breed of CCD digital cameras. As my previous attempts to image with
film had been so disappointing, I started toying around with the idea
of making one of these very sensitive digital cameras. The solution
came with the publication of The CCD Camera Cookbook
by Berry, Kanto and Munger. My home brew Cookbook camera saw its first
light in the summer of 1998 and for the first time I had digitally
imaged Jupiter and the four Galilean satellites. From there I went to
successfully modify webcams for long exposure and later I had a lot of
fun with the Canon digital SLR cameras. In 2005 I went back to cooled
CCD imagers with a
marvelous piece of equipment, a SBIG STL11000M camera. I have other
cooled cameras but the STK 11K continues to be the workhorse at the
observatory. Living in the suburbs of a big city means light pollution. That's why I only do narrow-band emission-line imaging from my backyard observatory, for wide-band imaging I drive to La Hita observatory, a remote location shared with other fellow amateur astronomers. Some of my deepsky photographs have been published in astronomy magazines like Ciel et Space, France, Le Stelle, Rivista di Cultura Astronomica, Italy, Astronomia, Spain and Espacio, Spain. My photographs are also featured in Robert Reeves book Introduction to Digital Astrophotography, Willmann-Bell Inc., 2005, and calendars as the 2010 Year in Space Calendar and the ASA Color of the Universe calendars (2009 and 2010). Three of my deep sky CCD Images have become NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) on 2007 July 16 , 2007 October 19 and 2008 October 18 I hope you enjoy the visit to this site. You are welcome to e-mail me at antonio(at)afernandez.net (just replace '(at)' with @ ). Clear skies! antonio Portfolio of Published Images
IC5067 in The Pelican Nebula Colors of the Universe 2009, ASA 2009 Calendar
The Rosette Nebula Colors of the Universe 2009, ASA 2009 Calendar
CTB1 in Cassiopeia L'Image du Mois, Ciel et Space, December 2008
Sharpless 171 in Cepheus NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2008 October 18
NGC218 The Pacman Nebula Antonio Fernandez Chasseur de Ciel Unique, Ciel et Space, France, February 2008 M20 The Trifid Nebula Antonio Fernandez Chasseur de Ciel Unique, Ciel et Space, France, February 2008 The Rosette Nebula Antonio Fernandez Chasseur de Ciel Unique, Ciel et Space, France, February 2008 IC1848 HII Region September Page, Ciel et Space 2008 Calendar NGC6888 July Page, Ciel et Space 2008 Calendar The Great Orion Nebula I Encuentro de Astrofotógrafos. Publicaciones de la AAS. Nº1, December 2007 IC5067 in The Pelican Nebula NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2007 October 19 The Lagoon Nebula in Gas, Dust and Stars NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day, 2007 July 16 The Cone Nebula Region Fotografía con Gigantes, Espacio, Spain, August 2007 The North America and Pelican Nebulae En el Foco, Astronomia, Spain, September 2006 The Centre of the Galaxy Le Stelle, Rivista di Cultura Astronomica, Italy, June 2004 The Summer Milky Way Robert Reeves, Introduction to Digital Astrophotography, Willmann-Bell Inc.,USA, 2005 The Leo Triplet of Galaxies Robert Reeves, Introduction to Digital Astrophotography, Willmann-Bell Inc.,USA, 2005
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