Aldo Zanetti

I aws born in Modena (Italy) in 1956. In 1979 I graduated in Astronomy with a thesis on the calculation of HR diagrams applied to M15. My professional life developed in IT industry, and I held executive positions in some of the most important multinational software companies up to my retirement in 2020.
I was a co-founder of the Modena amateur astronomers’ association GAGBA in the 1970s, which is still active, and when I retired I revived my old passion for astronomy, dedicating myself to deep-sky astrophotography. My images won many national and international APOD awards and have been published in several of the most important amateur astronomy magazines.

Armen Akopian

I am a neuroscientist. Professor in the School of Dentistry, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. I have started astronomy as hobby from March 2022, and astrophotography as hobby from May 2023. 

Jim Fordice

Jim is a retired U.S. Navy Submarine Officer who traces his start in amateur astronomy to the Annular Eclipse that passed over Albuquerque, NM in July 2012. He learned how to observe and has completed the Astronomical League qualification as a Master Observer. Jim’s favorite deep sky objects are globular clusters. After becoming interested in astrophotography he started a project to image all the Milky Way globular clusters. He completed that project by using his own equipment and by using remote telescopes in the southern hemisphere.

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