Fernando de Gorocica

In Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires province. Argentina

Biography, Job Profile and Albums

Fernando Tomás de Gorocica Rocca (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2 th., 1962) Systems Licenciate, Universidad de Belgrano) and amateur Astronomer.

Job and Amateur Profiles

Professional Profile

Informatic and Mathematics professor at Secondary School.

Amateur Astronomy Profile

• Astronomy interest since 1976.

• Star catalog compilation and edition: "Catálogo de las Constelaciones y de la Estrellas. Descripciones", 11.1998.

• Astronomical Software Programming "M1 Sistema Astronómico"© (since 1998) oriented to the position astronomy: Sun, Moon, planets, asteroids, comets, Jupiter´s satéllites, stars, nebulae, galaxies and others celestial objects from the deep space; eclipses and astronomical almanac (ephemerids); celestial charts (owm design) and zodiacal diary position of the principal celestial objects.

• The Almagest's Ptolemy translated from the english version of Gerald J. Toomer in 2000. See: Almagesto de Claudio Ptolomeo.

• Assay "Cosmogonía del Sistema Solar", 2002.

• Art: astronomical paintings since 2007.

• Web Publications since 2010. Facebook web page "El Observador Astronómico" (see links).

External webs links

• Fernando de Gorocica (Facebook)

• El Observador Astronómico (Facebook)

• El Observador Astronómico (YouTube)

• Google Earth (Guritxu)

Astronomical Albums

Celestial Charts

• Celestial Charts

• Zodiacal Celestial Charts

• Southern Hemisphere Constellations

Others Astronomy Albums

• Albedo, Zodiacal Light and Gegenschein

• Astronomical Paints

• Celestial Coordinates

• Comets. Long and Short Periods

• Conjunctions and Occultations by the Moon

• Cosmogony or Origin of the Universe

• Galaxies and the Milky Way

• Galileo Galilei

• Gravitational Forces and Celestial Mechanics

• Messier Catalogue

• Meteor Showers

• Meteorites

• Moon and Solar Eclipses

• Observatories and Telescopes

• Orbits and Astronomical Distances

• Planetary Opositions and Conjunctions

• Planets and Stars Conjunctions

• Planets

• Precession, Nutation and Pole Movement

• Refraction and Depression of the Horizon

• Religion and Astronomy

• Stars

• Sundials

• The Moon and the Sun

• Time and Calendars

• Transits of Mercury and Venus

Mathematics & Geometry

• Mathematics

• Geometry

Books & Articles

• Almagesto de Claudio Ptolomeo

• Cálculo de un Eclipse Solar y Lunar. Ocultación y Tránsito

• Catálogo de Estrellas de Claudio Ptolomeo

• Datación del Catálogo de Estrellas de Ptolomeo y de algunas Tablas

• Eclipses Lunares desde Argentina

• Eclipses Solares en Argentina

• Lluvia de Meteoros

• Mapa de los Astrónomos en el Almagesto

• Sistema Ptolemaico o Sistema Geocéntrico

• Tabla Cronológica de las Observaciones en el Almagesto

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