FOUNDER

Amit Waghmare

Founder and lead observer at AetherX. He leads mission planning, optical calibration and the editorial direction of the archive, and personally reviews each frame before it is published under the AetherX name.

AMIT

FOUNDER / LEAD OBSERVER

What began as a single tracked camera on a rooftop grew into a working studio with a shared archive, a rigorous capture standard and a small crew that treats every night of clear sky as a limited resource.

His position is simple: an astronomical image is a measurement first and a picture second. If the capture notes cannot be published beside the frame, the frame does not go out.

09
Years observing
1400
Frames archived
27
Deep sky targets

Timeline

2017

First tracked camera on a rooftop in India; the first usable Orion stack.

2020

Capture standard written down: logged seeing, matched calibration sets, no painted colour.

2023

The archive opens publicly, with raw stacks preserved alongside every published frame.

2026

AetherX works alongside Aetheris Software and Aethero Studio as one studio group.