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Hello, I’m Davor Orel and I propose the last of my photograph as a possible APOD. I shot it with my equipment in a single night (4h:27m) from the Maniva mountains near Brescia (Italy), it shows what is possible to achieve with a decent sky and amateur equipment in a single short photo session . The ...

SwordLESS In the last night of 2021 from the Maniva Pass (Italy) I took nearly 7 hour of the “sword” of Orion, the nebulae between the Orion belt and M42. Using a small telescope (Askar FMA180 on a AZ-GTi), a cooled camera (QHY163C) and a L-Enhance filter, this image show only the H-Alpha band of 13...

Real Star! Each of the following movie stars owes its name (or surname) to real stars, so I decided to represent them using tens of thousands of shots taken of their relative stars. Using an Askar FMA180 on an Az-GTi, shooting with the QHY163C and the L-Pro filter, from the city of Brescia (Italy), ...

The Sirius Color Wheel Hi, I’m Davor Orel, from Brescia (Italy) and I would like to show you the photograph I made based on the color circle invented by Johannes Itten, which I learned when I went to school as a child to learn primary colors. To make it, I used about 4000 shots of Sirio, from the ba...