My passion for astronomy dates back to childhood. As far as I can remember, it should dated the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 and Tintin on the moon that I had read in the same time.<\/p>\n
I started to practice with a 60-700 refractor telescope at the age of 12 years. I used it for 12 years. I still remember very well my first observation of the moon from the window of my room. What a shock seeing craters for the first time for real! My observations with this telescope was limited to the planets. I discovered Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.<\/p>\n
I replaced it by a 150\/750 Newtonian telescope bought at Optique Unterlinden<\/a> in Colmar with whom I made my first steps in deep sky. It was mounted on EQ5 equatorial mount equipped with the PIC-Astro A1<\/a> motorisation system.<\/p>\n I started astrophotography with a Kodak compact digital camera mounted in front of the eyepiece. Like visual observations, I began by the planets. I built a K2 CCD camera<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Then I used a Canon EOS 350D digital single lens reflex.<\/p>\n When I purchased this Canon EOS 350D, I also thought to use it for photos of every day, as family, hiking, etc. Discovering the potential of a reflex, I took myself to the game and I started doing photography for making\u00a0beautiful photos, tried at least.\u00a0Without wishing to specialize in the beginning, my love for nature and hiking did that I turned naturally to landscape photography.<\/p>\n In 2007, I built my own telescope in complement to the one I’m using for photos. It is a “Strock” ultra-transportable Dobsonian telescope of 250mm diameter. Here is the story of this project<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the beginning of 2010, after one year of reflexion, I purshased a\u00a0Takahashi EM-200 USD3<\/a> equatorial mount and a FSQ-106ED refractor<\/a>, a dream come true.\u00a0The imager is a Canon EOS 1000D partialy unfiltered by\u00a0myself. I removed the IR-cut filter, but I let the filter on the vibrant anti-dust system that also blocks the infrared but leaves past the H-alpha rai so important in astronomy. To this is added a William Optics 66SD ZenithStar refractor and starshoot autoguider camera for guiding.<\/p>\n In 2011, before leaving for my first trip to Iceland, I replace the 350D with a Canon EOS 7D. I also use in addition to the lens,\u00a0that range from ultra-wide-angle to telephoto, graduated neutral density\u00a0filter from Lee.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My passion for astronomy dates back to childhood. As far as I can remember, it should dated the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle in 1986 and Tintin on the moon that I had read in the same time. I started to practice with a 60-700 refractor telescope at the age of 12 years. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zesly.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}