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About me
Since I was young I was always interested in astronomy and got used to watching the Milky Way during summer vacations in my parents’ village. In 2020 I took my first steps in astrophotography during a weekend workshop in the countryside. I was completely amazed by what we could do with just a camera and a tripod.
After that I never stopped exploring the hobby. I’m a professional Digital Designer and that allowed me to transfer that knowledge to astrophotography image processing, but the learning curve was immensely steep. Even today there are always a lot of things to learn, with new equipment, and image processing techniques.
In the first years I was always traveling to the countryside to photograph the night sky, but everything changed in 2023 when I bought my house in the dark skies of Alentejo, Portugal. That allows me to get immense hours under the stars and take my astrophotography to the next level.
Location
I’m based in the dark skies of Alentejo, Portugal where I have access to beautiful bortle 3 skies. Here I have built a small observatory to focus on deep-sky imaging but also I have access to some nice areas to do night-scape.
Have a look at some of my best images on my astrobin account.
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Awards and recognitions
During my years as an astrophotographer I was fortunate enough to receive some recognition with my images. Here is a list of the highlights so far.
Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD
18 December 2025
Geminid Meteor Shower 2025
This was my third NASA APOD this time with a super special image of the Geminids Meteor Shower with a very bright Jupiter in the very center of the radiant.
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Astrobin IOTD
17 December 2025
My third image of the Day on the Astrobin website was problably my favourite deep-sky image ever of the Pazmino’s Cluster immersed in Ha field. A spetacular view taken in
My third image of the Day on the Astrobin website was problably my favourite deep-sky image ever of the Pazmino’s Cluster immersed in Ha field. A spetacular view taken in
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ZWO IOTW
6 October 2025
My second ZWO image of the week with the most spetacular comet of 2025 the
My second ZWO image of the week with the most spetacular comet of 2025 the
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Astrobin IOTD
26 June 2025
The Little Cocoon Nebula
My third image of the Day on the Astrobin website was this image of the Little Cocoon Nebula, a super interesting target immersed in a field of golden stars.
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Astrobin IOTD
29 December 2024
The Boogeyman Nebula
My second image of the Day on the Astrobin website was this image of the Boogeyman Nebula in Orion. Captured with my by 10′ Newtonian using a dual-band filter with my color camera.
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ESA – European Space Agency
16 October 2024
I was featured in the European Space Agency intagram page with a collaborative post were I introduce my self with some of my best images. It was a major success with over 47k likes.
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ZWO IOTW
15 October 2024
The Chinese Dragon Nebula
My first ZWO image of the week with the Chinese Dragon Nebula, an amazing region of the much larger and well known Lagoon Nebula.
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Astrobin IOTD
29 May 2024
Cygnus Waves
My first image of the Day on the Astrobin website was this image of Cygnus waves captured in HOO color palette. With a total of 20 hours exposure time using a dual-band filter with my color camera.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD
12 October 2023
Mu Cephei
This was my second NASA APOD and my first with a deep sky object. I thought of getting the red supergiant Mu Cephei and the surrounding nebulosity of the Elephant Trunk nebula. It turned out a very original framing and the refraction spikes also gave it a nice touch.
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Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist
2023
Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF)
Comet 2022 E3 (ZTF) was the first comet I photographed and made it all the way into the shortlist of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. I was lucky enough to get the disconnecting event of the tail which made this image extra special.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day APOD
11 June 2022
Summer Milky Way Arch
My first NASA APOD was this beautiful image of the summer Milky Way Arch rising over a road in Alentejo, Portugal. I called it Road to the Stars. In the middle of the protected light area Dark Sky Alqueva is one of the best places in Portugal to stargaze and photograph the stars.
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