With best regards to Mr Tafreshi

Master Babak.A Tafreshi

The founder and leader of The World At Night, Babak Tafreshi is based in Germany. He was born in 1978 in Tehran. He is also a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, TWAN's parent organization. Tafreshi is a science journalist, astronomy communicator, and photographer. He is a contributing photographer of Sky&Telescope; a world's leading astronomy magazine. He received the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award, the world’s most recognized award for scientific photography, for his global contribution to night sky photography. From 1997 to 2007 Tafreshi was an editor of the Astronomy Magazine of Iran (Nojum), the only popular astronomy magazine in the Middle East. He served as the editor-in-chief for several years too. He has appeared many times on television and radio programs on astronomy and has met and interviewed many world-renowned astronomers and space scientists. He has been a founder member of the Astronomical Society of Iran's Amateur Committee from 2001 to 2010 and has organized and directed many national astronomy events, including Iran's annual national Messier Marathon. Through TWAN which was designated as the first Special Project of International Year of Astronomy 2009, Tafreshi cooperated with the International Astronomical Union and UNESCO as one of the project coordinators for IYA2009.

Tafreshi is a professional photographer specializing in images of the night sky with foregrounds of natural landscapes and historic architecture. He has always been fascinated by the universality of the night sky, with the same sky appearing above a variety of landscapes around the world. His work has been exhibited in several countries and has appeared in international magazines. He communicates with world-wide astronomy community through science journalism and his TWAN trips and imaging workshops in various countries, and he regularly gives presentations during his expeditions to solar eclipses observing sites. Astronomy and TWAN imaging has taken him to all of the continents including Antarctica