The telescope is a Meade SSC-10 equipped with the Computer Drive System (CDS #1697), the german mounting version of the more known LX200.
The CCD camera is the french Hi-SIS 22, developed by the team of Christian Buil, a pioneer in the utilization of this type of sensors in astronomy.
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Enrico Prosperi graduated in Electronics Engineering . He was then concerned with infrared and microwave radiometry, applied to bio-medicine and remote sensing. On such topics he also collaborated, as an external consultant, with electronic industries and with research institutions, developing a good experience in the field of digital image processing. Since 1984, he is a professor of Electronics in the Technical High-Schools and currently teaches Telecommunications at the I.T.I.S. "Silvano Fedi" in Pistoia, Tuscany. Amateur Astronomer since he was still a boy, he resumed the ancient passion installing next to his residence the above described instrumentation, in the years 1993-94. Since 2004 the observatory was enriched with a LX-200 GPS 14" scope and ST-7EI, ST-9XE and ST-1001E SBIG cameras. In the years 1999-2004 he cured the deep sky column on the montly review 'l'Astronomia'. |
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