Hi. I am  Dimitris . I am 41 years old and i am working in a hospital.

            I've been  interested in astronomy many years ago, since i was very young. I was looking

at the night sky wondering what lies up there.

My first telescope came at my 27s. It was a little 60 mm refractor. Since then i observed

the sky with many telescopes, but no one of them gave me the satisfaction i had with

that little one refractor. One year later came my real telescope. The C-8+.It was a joy to use and

delivered excellent views of the cosmos. I was fortune enough to have next to me a pre-

cious friend, who really helped me find out  my way at the sky.

This is my friend, Fred Ley, during solar observation. Fredy , thank you.

 Now, i am using  my dream telescope. The Celestron  S.C.T  Ultima 11 Pec. I characterize it

as dream telescope because it is heavy enough  for astrophotography but light enough

for transporting it to the fields. This telescope has excellent optics and gives the sharpest

images i ever seen, of the Moon ,Planets and beyond.

My main interest in astronomy, is astrophotography. Because my telescope lacks a ccd

jack for auto-guider, i am forced to manually guide my images. This is painful  enough, but

also, it gives me  the felling that these pictures are really ''mine''.

For serious astrophotography, i am traveling to my village at Panetolikon mountain. My observing  

site lies 650 meters above the see level. The sky is really dark. You can see with unaided  eye, 6.5 magnitude stars. 

I'd like to make a note for another hobby  of mine. It is photography. I develop  the films (color-

b&w-negatives or slides) by myself. I like being lost in my darkroom creating photographs thanks

to John. This is John with his C-8.

This is all for now. Let's hope the adventure in astrophotography shall go on.

Thank you  very much for being with me.

 Dimitris