What is this blog all about? As my main interests are in amateur astronomy and photography, these are the topics I will cover more extensively in these pages, with my personal perspective.
For a very long time I tried to develop these interests in my personal webpage, only to discover that a webpage is too bulky for the kind of discussions I wanted to carry out; a blog would have better suited my needs, and here I am!
The results I obtained in exercising my hobbies were always less than satisfying, I believe due to a lack of method from my side: I had to start being systematic about these topics, or I would have never done anything really pleasing. The idea is therefore that in these pages I will begin a travel and try to document myself on these topics (and others), hoping to find my route to better results.
If you want to join, you are welcome, and your contribution is strongly appreciated as well.
Crew, embark: the travel is beginning!
Marino Maiorino
Italian astrophysicist, specialized in characterization of Solid-State Detectors for imaging applications, living in Spain and working as a technical physicist for IFAE (Institut de Fìsica d'Altes Energies).Here he contributed in the Dear-Mama E.U. project for the prototyping of a digital mammography machine with single-photon counting X-ray solid-state imaging detectors, and is now working at the characterization of CCD's (Charge Coupled Devices) for the PAU-Cam, a 144 megapixel camera to be installed at the primary focus of the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands.
More professional information can be found on his personal website.
Interested mainly in amateur astronomy, photography, silver handmade jewels and many related fields.
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