About

I’m Sergey Shakhdinarov, an amateur astrophotographer living near Milan, Italy. I have been imaging the night sky since January 2022.

Where I image

For deep-sky targets I drive to darker skies: Il Pratone in the Oltrepò Pavese and Saint Barthélemy in Valle d’Aosta. The Moon, the Sun and the planets are mostly shot from home in San Giuliano Milanese, under a light-polluted suburban sky.

Since October 2026 I also share a remote rig at Swan Reach, in South Australia, with four friends: it opens up the southern sky. Those images are in the Australia section.

How

All my rigs in Italy ride on the same NEQ6 Pro mount; the setups are described in My Rigs, and every image links to the equipment it was taken with.

• Deep sky: capture with NINA, processing in PixInsight with the RC Astro tools.
• Planets, Moon and Sun: capture with SharpCap, stacking with AutoStakkert! 4, solar deconvolution with ImPPG, mosaics stitched in Microsoft ICE, final processing in PixInsight.

Elsewhere

You can also find my images on AstroBin, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.