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My Comet Chaser We spent the night waiting to see the comet C 2023 P1 Nishimura. Having some fun lookin Orion for the first time after spring and summer. The comet rises from the horizon just before the sunrise so I take this picture. For the comet it's a stacking of 120 images at 550mm took with m...

Summer Countryside This image was realized in July in south Italy (Otranto). The sky is a mosaic of 3 panels, each one of 9 photos stacked together. EXIF Nikon Z6IIa VenusLaowa Argus 28mm f/1.2 Sky (3x9)x30sec | f/2.8 | ISO 1600 Foreground 3x60sec | f/5.6 | ISO 3200 Copyright: Pierandrea Folle Summ...

💫 ⭐ ⭕ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 ⭕ ⭐ 💫 Finally I was able to realize this photo, planned and in my mind since years. Every time the bales were moved some days before my planned shot. This year I've done this amazing 4 hours long startrail while I stargazing. I try to relate thee circles shapes of the srars...

2023 Perseids Fireworks An entire night in one of Pollino National Park's peak. Capturing 2000+ photos catching all the Perseids meteors. Nikon Z6IIa + Sigma ART 14mm f/1.8 + Sigma ART 28mm f/1.4 Sky: 9x30s f/2.8 ISO 1600 Meteors: 13s f/2.8 ISO 10000 Foreground: 2x300s f/5.6 ISO 5000 Copyright: Pie...

💫 ⭐ ⭕ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 ⭕ ⭐ 💫 Finally I was able to realize this photo, planned and in my mind since years. Every time the bales were moved some days before my planned shot. This year I've done this amazing 4 hours long startrail while I stargazing. I try to relate thee circles shapes of the srars ...

The Kiss
Jupiter and Venus kiss after an amazing sunset. A big heart for them impressed on the rock. The conjuction shot on 01.03.23 in Salento, Puglia, Italy

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The Kiss by Pierandrea Folle, su Flickr

Crossing Geminids 🌍 What an hard work. It's a 360° pano of Geminids meteor shower during night peak of 13-14 December. My D850 camera broken during the meteor shots, leaving me alone and freezing during the night, with this amazing work suspended. Here you can see the few meteors caught. It's a com...

The Hunter Was Hurt

Orion hurt by a Geminid meteor

Credit and copyright: Pierandrea Folle

Space Valley My camera decided to shoot this tree all night long. That's what happened! Heart's movement make a little trail in the stars, recorded by the sensor. The sum of 305 shot, each one of 47 seconds, made this kind of effect, a Startrail. I shoot from 00:30 till dawn at 4:30am. After a long...

𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 This tree is asking us some aid, compassion. It seems that is showing Sky the way to problem, just look down here, looking for some divine help. For this reason I decide to name this work "Earth's Calling". Like every year in this period, we went to Pollino National Park to...

Perseids 2021 Shower Here we are on the Italian south of cost of Salento. In the picture you can see Cassiopea and Perseo constellations, near by the radiant point of Perseids meteors. All meteors were shot during the nights of 12-13-14 August, during peak. Easily you can see Andromeda Galaxy. Copy...

The Lost Farm For June Milky Way shot, we went in one of the most dark and amazing location "near" home. It's Masseria Cippano, Otranto, Salento, Lecce -> ITALY. What you see is an old building that in medieval time was used to defend our country from Saracens invasions, our enemies. It w...

The Star Tree We are came back to shoot night landscapes this year too. Once again, we are in the darkest spot of Salento, where this lonely tree was our model for a night. For my first time I was able to take some airglow in this area. 200°+ nightscape pano with many constellation inside that I wil...

Stellar's Gathering Do you know that even the stars made some gathering in Covid time? Last month conjuction of Mars and Plaiades, shot on 8 March with a non modified Nikon D850 for 20 minutes integration for sky at 300mm. The final shot was mixed with two different light painting's techniques and a...

Geminids Meteor Shower 2020 In the image there are 94 of the biggest metoer shot during the night peak 13-14 December, selected from 1265 photos. I spent all the night photografing about 170 meteors in total. Hope you like it. Meteors: 15s f/2 ISO 3200 Landscape: 60s f/2.8 ISO 1250 Lightpainting: 60...

Crescent Moon 27,7% HDR

Nikon D850 + Tamron Italia SP 150-600 G2 + TCx1.4 + Gitzo GT3532s + IOptron SkyGuider Pro

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Crescent Moon 27,7% HDR by Pierandrea Folle, su Flickr

Hypnotic

Startrail of 420 images of 45 seconds each, during a night spent on top of Serra di Crispo peak, in Pollino National Park.

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Hypnotic by Pierandrea Folle, su Flickr

Perseid Meteor Shower 2020

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The Way To Freedom

Sky
Stacking 7x250s | f/5.6 | ISO 640 + 3 dark
Foreground
Stacking 3x180s | f/5.6 | ISO 2000
Lightpainting
20s | f/5.6 | ISO 1250
Selfie
10s | f/8 | ISO 1250

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C/2020 F3 Neowise
The comet in the sky of south Italy, during the sunrise of 10 July in Sant'Andrea (LE)

Sky
7x60s f/11 ISO 1000 105mm
Land
1/2s f/11 ISO 200

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Far East Lights 360 pano of the most east poin in italy, Punta Palascia lighthouse. Start from house early to shot the landscape during blue hour, I had to fight with heavy wind condition on location. When the night comes, my friends reach me to the spot. For some of them was the first milky way sh...

Stargate 2020 First of the season, my first pano, first galactic arch.This is the shot I was dreaming for during all lockdown period long here in Italy. First time I saw the Albanian cities lights lighting up the sky, making visible their mountains in the night too. The closing period helps to make...

The Guardians of the Galaxy Closing the milky way season here in Italy with this fantastic adventure with my friends.... After 4 hours of walk, we reach Serra Di Crispo peak at 2060 meters, in Pollino National Park, where we spend the night. After few shots, I saw something strange in the sky. It w...