Interested to the “sky things” from the age of 6, at 8 years old received fromhis parents a littletelescope. At 12 years old build his first telescope by using lens for glasses, so he entered the fascinating world of the auto construction. Among the many instruments built, the most rewarding was a Schmidt camera of 175 mm mirror lens with f2.2 (in 1980) of which I built al the correction slab. In his website http://xoomer.virgilio.it/jimi52/x you can see some auto construction instruments, and some images obtained with this instruments.

He works as turn worker for the Sanremo aqueduct, in the past he was a radio craftsman.

He is member of the Circolo Astronomico G.D. Cassini in Sanremo and he collaborates to the managing of the Astronomical observatory of Perinaldo. Among the astronomical objects he prefers to photograph are the Moon and the large nebular galactic fields.

Instruments: Celestron C8 Xltfrom his home terrace, Meade Lx200 2120Baker-Schmidt200mm f/2 Newton Urania 250mm f/4 in a mountain emplacement. Ccd Starlight SXF , webcam Vesta Pro.