OUR STORY
From a backyard project to the new home for astrophotography
Telescope Live was born as a small project in 2016 in the R&D laboratories of Konica Minolta in Europe in collaboration with University College London (UCL), as part of the larger programme on distributed robotics.
In April 2020, Telescope Live was licensed to a UK startup called Spaceflux Ltd, which took over the future development and operations of the platform, keeping its core team.
Our team
Marco Rocchetto
Marco is the co-founder and director of Spaceflux, the company behind Telescope Live. He is the main creator and founder of Telescope Live, which he developed when he was a research manager at Konica Minolta. He is also a research associate in astrophysics at University College London. He is a coordinator of the Ephemerides Working Group for the European Space Agency ARIEL mission, for which Telescope Live provides follow-up data for transiting exoplanets.
Dennis Curry
Dennis is the deputy CTO at Konica Minolta, and a passionate amateur astronomer. He launched the first development of the Telescope Connect project in the Konica Minolta R&D labs under the distributed robotics program. In early 2020, the project was transitioned to Spaceflux Ltd, a UK startup, under the new name of Telescope Live. Today Dennis is a non-executive board member of Spaceflux.
Ingo Waldmann
Ingo is co-founder and director of Spaceflux, the company behind Telescope Live. He is an associate professor at University College London and deputy director of UCL Centre for Space Exoplanet Data.
Alexander Curry
Alex has been part of the Telescope Live since its early days, helping setting up the very first telescopes. He is an amateur astrophotographer and he is responsible for customer support, tutoring and user experience. He also helps with the overall operations.
Ernesto Guido
Ernesto is responsible for telescope network operations and customer support. He is an award-winning amateur astronomer who discovered 7 asteroids, one of which is named after him. He also contributed to the observations of over 1000 NEOs and comets, and he discovered 4 supernovae and one Jupiter trojans.
Maurane Gisiger
Maurane is the Scientific Editor at Telescope Live. She curates our Blog and Academy. She is a fourth-year student in Astrophysics with History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.
Giorgio Savini
Professor in Optical Instrumentation at UCL and Director of UCL Observatory, Giorgio is responsible for University collaborations and teaching for Telescope Live, and he is a board member of Spaceflux, the company operating Telescope Live.