About - Deep Sky Watch
About This Site
Welcome to Deep-Sky Watch website. This site is dedicated to observational astronomy. It features a variety of observing resources such as articles and DIY guides, printable star atlases and observing guide for DSO observers, calculator for CCD and eyepieces, gallery of my astronomical sketches and astro-photography. Also you can find here some materials specific for Israeli amateur astronomers (in hebrew): Oobserving sites, light pollution maps, etc.
Copyright Notice
This website and all its content is a copyright of Michael Vlasov © 2020. All rights reserved.
You may use materials from this site only with explicit permission (please ask by Email) and include a copyright notice (preferably a clickable link). For example: "Copyright © Michael Vlasov 2020 - DeepSkyWatch.com".
You may not reproduce or publish complete copies of articles, guides, documents or numerous collections of works (i.e. multiple gallery entries or a whole sky atlas document). An exception is use of these works in non public media - for example a presentation which is used for a specific lecture or a pamphlet issued by an astronomy club.
About the Author
Me during an observing session
My name is Michael Vlasov, I'm 38 years old and reside in kibbutz Cabri in Israel. I'm an electro-optical engineer (MSc) and an amateur astronomer since 2003. My main interests in astronomy are visual observing, drawing the deep sky objects and planetary astrophotography. My daytime interests include sea kayaking, drumming.
Instruments I use currently: OOUK 12" F/4 Newtonian on AZ-EQ6 mount, 200mm Celestron Evolution SCT, Stellarvue 80mm ED refractor (mainly for solar/lunar photography), Canon EOS 500D DSLR, ASI290MC and ASI290MM cameras. My previous telescopes were 10" Skywatcher and 8" Orion equatorial Newtonians which I used to make earlier entries for this site.
Don't hesitate to contact me by Email.