For that they wish to know who is behind the camera, goes a brief review here of who is this astrophotographer. My interest in astronomy began when i went to the school. I participated in a workshop, it consisted simply of classes where a professor spoke a little to us about the stars. Nevertheless, everything got a new sense when in January of 1986, I could recognize for the first time a star pattern in the sky: they were three stars in line that remembered to have seen in the stellar chart of a book. They was the "Tres Marías" (Orion belt). Two months later, I could follow during several nights in the sky the comet Halley and began this long marriage with astronomy that lasts until the day of today. The following year I was made member of ACHAYA, the Astronomical and Astronautic Asociation of Chile, place where I have been able to channel of better form my hobby and place where also I have made great friends. By the summer of 1993, I bought a camera Pentax K-1000, the same one that I use nowadays to take my photos. My first photos were of stars trails, or patterns of constellations with exposures of not more of a minute, with 1600 ASA film. Also I took photos with the venerable Duque, a telescope of 25 cm. of diameter installed in one of the domes of Observatorio de Cerro Pochoco, belonging to the ACHAYA.

But my photos experienced a drastic change when I decided to acquire a telescope to be able to take advantage of its equatorial mount and made my first photographies in piggyback, moving to pulse the telescope and obtaining with this method exposures up to 20 minutes without demonstrating star trails. Soon I discovered that it was a true torture to take photos with this method, often making strange tests of wriggle and putting to test mi poor muscles of neck and back. I decided then that it had to take a new step: to acquire a true equatorial mount. Thus, after seeing the pros and the contras, I decided that the best option was the CG-5 of the Celestron, mount with which work until today. I brighten to me in obtaining the best possible results with the equipment which I have. It forces to me to program trips to the north of Chile, where that I know that i will work with the best skies of the world. I must transport enough equipment, approximately 35 kilograms by expedition, and the carps and sleeping bags become luxuries to which I must resign. In Chile, specifically in ACHAYA, a true boom is being lived on the astrophotography, I recommend to them to visit links that appear within my page. Now I invite to see them the gallery of images.