Ste's Web
A small collection of the observatories that I was lucky enough to visit... and sometimes use! Yeah!
1998 practical astronomy classes: 2 a.m. questions from Prof. to Student... with typical Veneto "snacks"
1998 practical astronomy classes at the 1.82 m telescope
1998: the 92 cm Schmidt telescope
1998: the dome of the Schmidt telescope in the fog
1998: finally a clear night at the 1.82 m telescope
The ALMA site in 2001
The CBI experiment in 2001
The Llano Chajnantor in 2001
The ALMA site testing in 2001
Another station above the Llano Chajnantor... Cerro Toco, location of the future ACT and Simons Observatory
Good old times at VLT in 2001
SOFI observations at NTT in 2002
La Silla in 2002
Visit to Mount Wilson in 2002
Visit to Mt. Wilson 100-inch 2002
The Sardinia Radio Telescope site in 2003
Observing with LRIS at Keck in 2006
Keck in 2006
LRIS/Keck in 2006
Kitt Peak in 2006
The Wiyn 0.9m telescope at Kitt Peak in 2006
Preparing COSMIC masks at Palomar in 2006
In the primary focus cage of the 200-inch Hale telescope, in 2006
Visiting VLA in 2006
Visiting Yerkes in 2006: the 40-inch telescope
Visiting Yerkes in 2006: the 40-inch telescope dome
JPL open house day in 2006
FSE astronomy classes (2007)
The inscription dedicated to my old relative, founder of the observatory (2007)
The 122 cm Galileo telescope (2007)
Night at Paranal in 2007
Paranal in 2007
Observing again with ISAAC/VLT in 2007
Potsdam solar observatory in 2010
2011 ESO Open House
One of my very favorite views in the world (2011)
Visiting SOFIA in 2011
"Flying" SOFIA in 2011 :-)
The Buran in the Speier museum (2014)
LBT in 2015: my last astronomy observations?
This thing is immense! (2015)
LBT in 2015
Observing with Luci on LBT in 2015
One of the two LBT big mirrors in 2015
Hiking to Wendelstein in 2015
eRosita in the clean room in 2016
Collecting signatures before leaving in 2016 :-(
PACS spare model in 2016
The Faint Object Camera, retired, in the Dornier Museum (2017)
Heroes of the Future, Specola di Padova (2017... or was it 2154?)
The good old ISAAC, now in the Supernova Museum (2018)
Reflections in the NIKA2 KIDs array at the IRAM 30m in 2018
Back to astronomy: IRAM 30m in 2018
Observing with NIKA2 at the 30m in 2018
Winter 2018 at the 30m
NIKA2 and PIIC. Yeah!
The secondary of the 30m in 2019
Where's Waldo? (2019)
Midnight pasta (2019)
Chilling with NIKA2 in 2019
Year 2264, is there a better way to see the stars than flyin' there?