2023-09-17 13:00:01
Par Hervé Pittoni
Published on Sep 17, 23 at 3:00 p.m. See my news Follow La Chronique Républicaine C434, the Horse’s Head nebula (Orion constellation). ©Didier Holka
“I’m more of a dreamer,” smiles Sédani Benzitoni straight away.
Dreamer, but with very solid technical foundations.
For a little over a year, the head of the computer park at the Jean-Guéhenno high school (attached to the regional council) has been using his free time to scan the sky over the country of Fougères.
With an instrument that can surprise. It has the shape of a box, with a fold-out arm at the end of which there is a sensor. This Vespera instrument is a digital telescope.
Sedani Benzetouni and Sandrine L’Horidan use a digital telescope. ©Hervé PITTONI
An easily usable, connected device, which above all allows you to observe “the deep sky”.
Understand distant objects in the universe, like galaxies. “It’s lazy astronomy,” Sédani continues to smile.
The M 33 (known as the Triangle), in the sky over Fougères this summer. ©Sédani Benzitoni
It is also “a real revolution”, which allows a new audience to be interested in the stars.
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Sedani and his partner Sandrine L’Héridon have been cultivating this interest for a long time. They of course went through the traditional Newton type telescope (“Dobson version”). Today, they favor the digital telescope, surfing with different applications to explore every corner of the universe.
“The digital telescope allows us to be responsive to astronomical news, and is compact,” they describe.
Their favorite galaxies? Le Moulinet, Andromeda, Orion, the M 51 A and M 52 B… magnificent neighbors, within connection range.
Didier Holka, converted to cosmology. ©Hervé PITTONI
“Observing is traveling in space”
One of Didier Holka’s favorites is the famous Horse’s Head.
The Lécoussois, a 56-year-old materials engineer, took a magnificent photo of it, with his Skywatcher telescope, to which he can adapt a camera.
When I made my first observations and discovered my first photos, I was like a child”
Didier Holka, amateur astronomer
“I grew up with Star Wars and science fiction. As a child, I already had an astronomical telescope and a few posters. I was a reader of Ca m’intereste and of Science et vie junior…” he lists.
He equipped himself with a high-performance telescope in 2020 and, since then, “travels in space in search of the origin of the world.
With one certainty: we are not alone in the Universe. A certainty reinforced with each of his outings around Fougères, where the sky is not too corrupted by light pollution.
Sédani Benzitoni’s photos can be viewed with the Facebook group La Bretagne étoilée and on Benz sedan. We find those of Didier Holka on Instagram.
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