About Davide

I am an engineer and an amateur astronomer.

My main interest is definitely about astronomy. I have loved this matter and the night sky since I was a child. Other interests are in astronautic and space exploration (both manned and unmanned), astronomy popularization, computer enhancement of astronomical images, drawing, painting, listening to music and other things. I also love the old-fashioned Italian style, especially if applied on cars.

Since 1997 I have collaborated with "Coelum", a very popular Italian astronomy magazine. I wrote dozens of columns and articles, most of them about space exploration and the history of astronautic. I also have produced or cooperated in several works of popular science, like websites and multimedia CD-ROMs.

Since 2005, I am collaborating with the European Space Agency's Hubble Public Outreach Office (http://www.spacetelescope.org) as a consultant working as an image processor.
In 2008 I have begun to process data to produce astronomical images for educational use for the European Southern Observatory as well.
These collaborations bring me to work with the data collected by astronomers with the most powerful telescopes ever built, like the NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope.

I am co-author of Cosmic Collisions - The Hubble Atlas of Merging Galaxies, a book containing a hundred new images of colliding galaxies from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Read more about the book at http://cosmiccollisions.org.

I own two telescopes, one mainly designed for lunar and planetary observations and a fine, homebuilt 13-inches Dobsonian telescope to enjoy myself observing the marvelous celestial objects disseminated in the warm summer night skies.

One of my dreams is to discover an asteroid, or at least that an asteroid will be named after me.  :-)

Something else about me.