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8 August 2024
Gravitational deflections of stars during the total solar eclipse of 2024. Verification of the Einstein theory using standard  amateur instrumentation, 105 years after the first measurement of Arthur Eddington during the 29 May 1919 total solar eclipse.
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Read the article about the measurement of
gravitational deflection of stars during the Total Solar Eclipse 8 April 2024

20 June 2024
The tolal solar eclipse of 8 April 2024 imaged by Lorenzo Comolli, Emmanuele Sordini and Alessandro Gambaro in USA, Arkansas, Nimrod Lake.:
Total Solar Eclipse 8 April 2024

19 March 2023
Samsung S21 Ultra telephoto camera is capable of stunning Moon shots. However this analysis shows that the AI software add real details even if they are not present!!!

5 October 2019
This is the composition of all images of the Total Lunar Eclipse of 21 Jan 2019. I tried to mix exposures from 1/1000s to 15 s to capture the entire phenomena, from Full Moon to eclipsed Moon together with stars.
Subject: Total Lunar Eclipse, 21 Jan 2019
Date: 21 Jan 2019
Location: Tradate, Italy
Camera: Canon 60D and 5D mod
Objective: TEC140 and Canon 100-400
Formats: Youtube, MP4
Author: Lorenzo Comolli

8 September 2019
A very faint supernova remnant in Cygnus imaged during the week at Colle dell'Agnello 2019.
G82.2+5.3 Cygnus Shell

7 September 2019
The tolal solar eclipse of 2 July 2019 imaged by Emmanuele Sordini in Chile and processed by me:
Total Solar Eclipse 2 July 2019

29 July 2019
Pickering triangle imaged in June 2019
Pickering Triangle

27 December 2018
Veil East imaged in August 2018
Veil East (NGC 6992)

28 October 2018
I captured this image during the Star Party of Saint Barthelemy 2018.
The squid and the bat (Ou4 and Sh2-129)

15 March 2018
Finally here is the timelapse of the total eclipse USA 2017.
Subject: Total Solar Eclipse
Date: 21 August 2017
Location: Glendo, WY, USA
Cameras: Canon EOS 60D, 760D, 5D, 6D, GoPro
More data at the end of the video
Formats: Youtube - AVI
Author: Emmanuele Sordini and Lorenzo Comolli
29 January 2018
Astrofotografiedag 2018 is a full day filled of very interesting conferences about astrophotography. It is organized every year by the VVS group, leaded by Bram Goossens, and hosted by the Urania observatory in Hove, Belgium.
In 2018 I had the honor to be invited to talk about two topics. Here are the two presentations, click on the images for the PDF file.
More details here.

Time Lapses of the Night Sky
Processing the great American eclipse

28 December 2017
I captured this image during the Star Party of Saint Barthelemy 2017.
Bubble, M52 and Sharpless neighborhood

30 November 2017
After the eclipse adventure, here is a new deepsky image captured during the last New Moon.
IC 1848 Soul Nebula

27 August 2017
Here are the first images and data from the Total Solar Eclipse I've successfully observed in USA, Wyoming, on 21 August 2017. More images are be published! Keep looking for updates.


Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017 - USA
17 April 2017
Finally I was able to publish an image of Abell 1185 galaxy cluster, imaged during two nights in the Alps. Total exp of more than 10 hours. My first attempt in 2016 failed due to bad weather that allowed me to capture only a few frames.
Abell 1185 galaxy cluster

4 December 2016
Here is the only long exposure image from Colle dell'Agnello 2016 (30 July - 6 August).
LBN 438 in Lacerta

6 June 2016
Here are the results from the adventure for observing the Transit of Mercury of 9 May 2016.
Transit of Mercury
9 May 2016

27 March 2016
Here is the latest result from Pian dell'Armà in February 2016.
Sh2-232 in Auriga

27 December 2015
Some more images of 2015.
Super-Moon and Mini-Moon
August 2014 and January 2015
 Comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy)
24 January 2015		 Sh2-224 Supernova remnant
in Auriga

26 December 2015
Here are some images of 2015 finally online.
LDN 783 in Vulpecula
 Conjunction Moon Venus Jupiter
20 June 2015
 NGC 6820 in Vulpecula

14 December 2015
Here is the latest result from Saint Barthelemy in October 2015.
LBN 437 in Lacerta

11 September 2015
Finally I've tested the mythical Sony A7s! I've found a great sensitivity but... (read the test). I've tested also the Sony A6000, with similar good and bad points.
 
28 August 2015
The summer week at Colle dell'Agnello this year was full of clouds and I've gathered only a single picture from three partially clouded nights.
Sh2-101 and neighborhoods in Cygnus

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