2018-03-052025-06-03http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/37791Alberto Cora was born in Turin on 5 September 1963. An amateur astronomer since the age of 7, he has been publishing popular astronomy articles since 1983 and is the author of Atlante Celeste di l'Astronomia, which had a print run of 17,000 copies in 1989. He graduated in Physics from the University of Turin in 2004 and worked at the aerospace company Aeritalia from 1985 to 1989. Since 1989, he has worked at the Turin Astrophysical Observatory (INAF-OATo). He collaborated on the development of the 5-channel photopolarimeter installed at the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito (Argentina). Since 1995, he has been part of the Observatory's solar physics group, participating in observations of the solar corona with the ultraviolet coronagraph spectrometer (UVCS) aboard the SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). From 1998 to 2011, he worked on the development of the SOHO long-term data archive (SOLAR) at the Turin Observatory. He was responsible for the observatory's scientific dissemination activities from 2011 to 2018. From 2015 to 2017, he participated as an expert in the drafting of the regional law for the reduction of light pollution (Piedmont Regional Law3/2018). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and, since 2025, has been a member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Archaeoastronomy and Cultural Astronomy.Sole e sistema solare