About...

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NAME: CARLOS ANDRES MILOVIC FABREGAT
EMAIL: carlos.milovicNO@SPAMpixinsight.com

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Let's start from the beggining. I was born on a beautiful night, Thursday, day 15 of the eighth month, according to the Romans (October), in 1981...

Seriously, in fact I doubt that you want to listen to this history... let's go straight into my "Photographic Résumé" and into what I am doing now. In the school (the 6th year) began my story in the photography. There was a Black and White photographic laboratory (I also had one at home, although I don't use it anymore. Now, the equipment is in boxes in the warehouse). Thanks to the professor, I learned how to develop films and papers, extend... well, the basic things. In the last school's years, I was in charge of the laboratory. I had to make the budgets, buy the stuff, and help the teacher with the photography classes. And of course, to make some things more outposts (I tried to learn adjustment techniques, but they did not work very much). When withdrawing the school, once in the university, I took a Advanced class of Photography. Aside from that I have not made much... only take advantage of each trip to take any of my cameras and to make some photos. I uploaded some of them here.

On the other hand, in 1999, I began with Astrophotography. Using the body of the "old" Topcon camera, I made an adapter, with which I could use the Duque Telescope, in the Observatory of Pochoco Hill, ACHAYA (prime focus mainly). Thanks to the committed errors, and the advice of the people there, i was acquiring practice and step by step improving the quality of the pics (I recognize that still I need a lot to improve). The following year, seeing the necessity to coordinate the efforts, I took the position of Director of Photography in ACHAYA. By the end of the 2001, I left the vice-presidency of ACHAYA and the administrative positions (director of departments) by personal reasons. The 2002, after a brief rest, I founded the forum of astrophotography of the Chilean Astronomy Network, RChA (the Chilean federation of the amateur groups) and I entered the staff of the astrophotography section. At the moment I continue being the moderator of the forum, although it had a reconstruction and it now depends less on the RChA. Nevertheless its growth has justified the changes, and I invite to all of you (if you speak spanish) to participate. Well, let's continue... by the end of the 2002 I finished a version preeliminating of an equatorial barn door tracker, that i had to move "by hand". It proved to work good enough, reason why I dedicated myself to motorize it. On the other hand, in December I organizated with ACHAYA the First Encounter of Astrophotography, in the Pochoco observatory. Besides from showing each one what they was doing, it was a very good opportunity to meet each other and to establish new friendships. During the summer of the 2003 I finished the barn door completely, with a guide system. I had the opportunity to prove it on February 2003, when with other three friends we went to the north of Chile in a astrophotographic trip. In spite of innumerable problems, the experiment was a success, obtaining photographies that left me very pleased. In May we tried to repeat the experience, but the clouds said no. The rest of the year was rather little good in photographies, not thus in the equipment implementation. I acquired a new camera, four different lenses, an equatorial mount, an ocular with ilimunated reticle... I'm now practically completely self-sufficient. Now the task is to improve the quality of these "tools". Just in December I had the true opportunity to prove everything. Despite of making two small travels previously, just with this trip of 5 nights it would be seen what so well was prepared. Again the experience was a success. In this summer I hope to be able to take advantage of each opportunity to obtaining more photographies. In the digital plane, this year was very good, being its higher point the moment in which I joined the beta testers group of the PixInsight program, made by Juan Conejero specially for astronomical photographies. The program is brilliant, and we are obtaining impressive results. Following in the digital plane, I began to experience with a ccd camera, a ST7, in the educational observatory of the Catholic University of Chile. Although the results still distan enough to be the best ones, the important thing is to gain experiences in this area that without a doubt is the future of the astrophotography.

***"December 2006" update: Sorry, I'll translate the text as soon as possible."

 

That's all right now...

Regards,

Carlos


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©2001-2007 Carlos Milovic Fabregat.