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Checking silver coating after having mirrored the lens
Title:Checking silver coating after having mirrored the lens
Large Binocular Telescope project at Astrophysics Institute of Arcetri, Firenze. Making the special mirror lens for the adaptive module. Innovative technique to adapt a sort of flexible mirror lens to large binocular telescopes on the Earth has been introduced by the astrophysicist Piero Salinari of Astrophysics Institute of Arcetri. Such a revolutionary engineering will raise Earth-placed telescopes ability to produce crisper and sharper images than the ones obtainable only yet by Hubble from the space. The team in the picture, lead by astrophysicist doctor Armando Riccardi, with astrophysicist doctor Piero Ranfagni and astrophysicist doctor Runa Briguglio are checking the quality of the mirror coating just made on the flexible lens, in the laboratories of Arcetri.


MICHELE PERO
Italy



Biography: Michele Pero begins in the 90s as an advertising photographer. He works in Florence and Milan with still life photography while his passion for the darkroom, black and white photography and stories of life push him to take photos everywhere outside of the photographic studio. In Milan he starts his career as a photojournalist, when he sold out all his portfolios in one day, during a tour of the magazines he was pushed to have by the director of Superstudio 13. Such a new experience takes him to travel and to the wars which burn the Balkans in the 90's. Notable his work about Albania and...