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Contact information
e-mail
chekalin@yandex.ru
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website
www.astrophoto.ru
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Locator
Map
http://www.frappr.com/apppublic
Level of accuracy: Near Moscow, Russia
Biography
I was born in 1970 in Moscow
region where I still live today. Astronomy had interested me rather early
and I shall not forget how at the age of 10 years I first saw the
Andromeda Galaxy through a 30 mm pipe. However, my interest in
astronomy dissolved in the vanity of teenage life even though I studied it
for a couple of years at a Moscow planetarium. My enthusiasm fired anew at
age 20, for it was then that I began telescope making. This soon led
to visual observing and only later in 1995 did I become engaged in
astrophotography. I now understand that this has been my calling.
Areas of interest
CCD
imaging, telescope making
Astrophotography publications
Magazines
Zvezdochet magazine
Observing site
My
observatory is 110 km from Moscow at the Special Astrophysical Observatory
in North Caucasus.
Astronomical Equipment
Telescopes
108mm
APO, F/8
200mm F/6.3 Double-meniscus Maksutov-Cassegrain (Houghton-Cassegrain)
250mm Maksutov-Cassegrain F/4.7
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Mount
Losmandy G-11
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Camera
Artemis 285 |
