October 2003: a small update of my web page.

There is a new URL for the Associazione Ligure Astrofili Polaris: www.astropolaris.it
And there is a very interesting link about vie ferrate (equipped paths) with lots of pictures and information about the best vie ferrate in the Dolomites! 

In the astronomical section there are my studies about astronomy and celestial mechanics: SPACE, a program for the orbit calculation! It is possible to solve the Kepler's equation and get predictions on position for asteroids, comets and planets downloading SPACE, an astronomical program that I wrote using Matlab and Simulink. The results are very good!
There is page with photos and videos of the Associazione Polaris in Genova, with the astronomical lectures in the "Museo di Storia Naturale G. Doria" and star parties!
Thanks to Carlos' digital camera there are new images of the Atacama Desert and the visit at the ESO's VLT - Very Large Telescope Observatory on top of the Cerro Paranal, in my astronomical page.
That's what you can find about me in these pages:

Photos and Videos of the Associazione Polaris in Genova

Photos with the digital camera.

My Curriculum and my work on Gas Turbines.

Some photos from my album with the Dolomites and my excursions in the mountains. 

SPACE - Simulation program for Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics.

My astronomical page with  the astronomical club Associazione Ligure Astrofili POLARIS and some photos.

Some of my articles published on "Il secolo XIX" (in italian). 

Visiting the ESO's Very Large Telescope (Chile), published in "Polaris News" (in Italian); a description of my first visit at the Cerro Paranal.

A brief summary of my graduation thesis (in italian): "Turbogas a Combustione Indiretta: Ottimizzazione Termodinamica e Simulazione in Condizioni Nominali e di Fuori Progetto".


 

One of my hobbies is going on excursions in the mountains, especially in the Dolomites. However, my favourite hobby is astronomy. In 1994 with other friends, I founded the astronomical club Associazione Ligure Astrofili POLARIS which organizes astronomical and astronautical lectures in the "G. Doria" Natural History Museum in Genoa.
 

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Some of my bookmarks.

Polaris and its members:
 

• Associazione Ligure Astrofili POLARIS
• The home page of Ugo Ercolani , a brilliant telescope maker
• Briancon, the web page of Mauro Maestripieri
• The Archeoastronomical page (by Henry De Santis)

and in the rest of the web:
 

• Everything about Vie Ferrate: Silvia Petroni's web page. 
•  Le Stelle: the new astronomical magazine (editors Margherita Hack and Corrado Lamberti).
• Latest news in astronomy, astronautics and solar system exploration: the web page edited by Luciano Anselmo
• National Museum of Science and Industry - the Science Museum in London
• NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• The Space Shuttle and the International Space Station
• Comet Observation Home Page
• Astrowebcam, CCDs and the bright (and a little bit mad) Paolo Baldoni's ideas

Comments and questions to Luigi.
Last update October 19th, 2003.