A brief introduction


 

Welcome in my website, first of all !  My name is Fabrizio Marchi and  with Betty, I live near Treviso, a small city in Northeast Italy . I love astronomy from when was a child and actually I collaborate with an international manufacturer of telescopes and published dozens of articles on the major astronomical Italian journals. I always dedicate myself to the observation of variable and double stars, this website is a small collection of many years of passionate study

I invite you all to contact me to exchange experience , observational stimuli and share programs

Member of Treviso Astronomical Association from the fondation,  under the guidance of Giuliano Romano I learned the fundamentals of photometry, be it visual, PEP or CCD . my obersvational program over the years are been devoted to many classes of objects, from U geminorum type stars, to RR Lyr in globular cluster and BL Lac objects

In recent years I love to follow Suspected Mira  or semiregular Star , definitely a work of patience in a long time, but relatively undemanding in the short term, being enought a few observing sessions per month . I also noted  the transit of certain exoplanets, but 'not  a type of study that meets  my very interesting. One year ago with some friends I established the FTT (Fotometrica Treviso Team), a small amateur astronomers  group in my town committed itself to a program of joint study with different instrument. For some of them, this program is useful as a thesis study of high school

For several years, the French observatory of the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees at 2900 m above sea level, it gives me the opportunity to meet with French professional and amateur astronomers to share visual observations under a sky extraordinary dark and further issues such spectroscopy and photometry

French Astronomer Christian Buil (Irisman),  some friends (from left, Gino Bucciol, Danilo Zardin) and me : the telescope is an Ultra Ritchie Chretien optics, 320 mm diameter and F 5,5  focal ratio, made by OFFICINA STELLARE (Italy) for perfect and ultra corrected images on large field

Finally, the double stars, are decades my interest in "contemplative," I observe them for the simple pleasure of my eyes.
Only less than a year I'm perfecting the techniques of measurement using the CCD

Is my website! So allow me to thank Betty for the patience shown me all these nights left alone, while I was at the telescope, watching the stars, my constant companions ......and of course my parents for having supported with all their strength, my love for astronomy since I was a child .

                                                                                                                                              

                                                             Arne Henden (AAVSO President) & me in Padova, March 2010

                                                                      

                                                                              David Fabricius (1564 -  1617) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pupil of Tycho Brahe, applies particulary; to astronomy observation. He  discovered in 1596,  variabilityt of  the star  Omicron Ceti,later known as Mira

                                                                    ...nova in collo Ceti ! ....