I was born in Vicenza, a nice city located in the north east of Italy, where I live. When I was twelve for the first time I put my eye on the eyepiece of a little 2" refractor, aimed to the Pleiades Cluster. It was love at first sight: three months later I had my first scope, a little 60mm refractor that I used to get my first glances of the sky. One year later got a classic 4.5" Newtonian and I started to take my first piggyback pictures. After a further year I got my first serious instrument, a 200mm f/5 craft made newtonian telescope. Few months later I started prime focus photography.

Since then I have taken hundreds of pictures of the sky and published many of them on newspapers and astronomical magazines, either national or international. I am a member of my local astronomy club, Gruppo Astrofili Vicentini, since the origin. Sometimes I also write some articles for some national astronomy magazines. Besides loving astronomy I like listening music and traveling, especially to places with dark skies where enjoy the view of very dark and pristine skies

Gabriel Favetto, Gelys Trancho and myself (left to right)
in front of the National Telescope Galileo Dome
(Roque de Los Muchachos, La Palma)