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The CCD images have been taken by Enrico Prosperi, an italian electronics engineer, from his home-observatory at Larciano, a little town near Florence, in a suburban environment at 35m over the sea level.

The balcony where the telescope is installed is located no more than 60m away from a pub and 150m from a soccer playing field whose lights are often on during the observing sessions.

The telescope is a Meade SSC-10 equipped with the Computer Drive System (CDS #1697), the german mounting version of the more known LX200.

The CCD camera is the french Hi-SIS 22, developed by the team of Christian Buil, a pioneer in the utilization of this type of sensors in astronomy.

I operate from inside by means of a computerized remote control. Two personal computers supersede all actions: one is linked to the telescope CDS while the other is connected to the CCD camera.

The astronomical CCD images acquired since 1994 (~1600) have been collected in a CD-ROM together with the best astronomical and image processing software.

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Enrico Prosperi -- Email: e.prosperi@itisfedi.pt.it

* Enrico Prosperi graduated in Electronics Engineering in 1983 at the University of Florence. He was then concerned with infrared and microwave radiometry, applied to bio-medicine and remote sensing. On such topics he also collaborated, as an external consultant, with electronic industries and with research institutions, developing a good experience in the field of digital image processing. In 1989, he was involved, as an instructor, with the International Workshop on Remote Sensing at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (I.C.T.P.) in Trieste, Italy. Since 1984, he is a professor of Electronics in the Technical High-Schools and currently teaches Telecommunications at the I.T.I.S. "Silvano Fedi" in Pistoia, Tuscany. Amateur Astronomer since he was still a boy, only recently he resumed the ancient passion installing next to his residence, in the years 1993-94, the above described instrumentation.