ASSOCIAZIONE ASTRONOMICA CORTINA
Cometa C/2020 F3 Neowise dal passo Giau (A. Masi).
Via Lattea dal lago di Limedes (G. Hofer).
Super Luna di aprile 2020 (G. Menardi).
Nebulosa della Carena (A. Dimai).
Star trail sulla Tofana di Rozes (G. Menardi).
Orione sorge dai Cadini di Misurina (A. Masi).
Star trail (G. Hofer).
Grande Nube di Magellano (A. Dimai).
Cometa C/2020 F3 Neowise sopra i Brentoni (G. Hofer).
Nebulosa di Orione ripresa dal Col Drusciè (A. Masi).
Arco galattico sulle Dolomiti (G. Menardi).
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The Cortina Astronomical Association was born in 1972 from the enthusiasm of about twenty founding members, with the aim of building an astronomical observatory that would make it possible to take advantage of the transparency and purity of the air, which makes Cortina one of the privileged destinations of the world tourism.
The Cortina Astronomical Association manages the Col Drusciè astronomical Observatory, located at the top of the homonymous hill at the foot of the Tofane massif, which is equipped with a modern 40 cm diameter Ritchey Chretien telescope and the A. Dimai planetarium, adjacent at the ice stadium in Cortina. The observatory and the planetarium are visited annually by hundreds of enthusiasts, students, and tourists, who can admire the wonders that the night sky offers from a very privileged position. The members of the Association, thanks also to the possibilities offered by new technologies, have discovered 40 supernovae and an asteroid, called "Cortina d'Ampezzo". |
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LATEST NEWS
2022 grants
- March 20 - 2022
The Cortina Astronomical Association, on behalf of all members, thanks the Municipality of Cortina d'Ampezzo and Cortina Banca for the contributions assigned which will allow to buy and install a new mount and a new ccd camera for the Majoni telescope. Thanks to the contributions the Association...
Happy 2022
- January 01 - 2022
Dear members and friends of the Cortina Astronomical Association, on behalf of the entire board I would like to wish you a happy 2022. The balance of the year just ended is certainly positive, probably beyond our best expectations, both from an economic point of view thanks to the contributions...
Comet Hale-Bopp (1997) is the today APOD by NASA
- December 07 - 2021
The photo is almost a quarter of a century old, but for NASA experts, accustomed to sidereal times, these 24 years must seem like a flap of wings if they still reward, and for the ninth time, the image of the comet Hale-Bopp taken from the Valparola pass in 1997 by Alessandro Dimai.The image...
First prize at the IAU astrophotography contest
- August 29 - 2021
The images taken by Marco Migliardi and Alessandra Masi, members of the Cortina Astronomical Association, won the first prizes in the categories "polar auroras" and "total lunar eclipses" of the astrophotography contest organized by the Office of Astronomy for Education of the IAU (International...