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Member Reports from Bob Eklund

May 07

2010

A Few of My Favorite Moons

by Bob Eklund

On Global Astronomy Night, April 24, I hosted a star party in Los Angeles where we had a perfectly clear sky, nine telescopes, and a congregation of about 200 neighbors and their children. It was, in fact, a perfect night-and, ignoring Saturn, I kept my telescope pointed at the moon all evening. What I remember most about it is how one 5-year-old girl jumped up and down around my telescope, shouting "The moon, the moon, I love the moon!" Here are some moons that I have loved, over the years: Looking for poems In the pale afternoon sky... Only a... Read More...

Apr 27

2010

A la Gloire des Cieux (To the Glory of the Heavens)

by Bob Eklund

For the benefit of our friends who are able to read French, we are posting this superb astropoem by the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916). Born in a Flemish, but French-speaking Belgian family, Verhaeren wrote in French and became known as one of the chief founders of the French Symbolist movement. By the turn of the century he was world-famous and his works were translated into more than 20 languages. Verhaeren's deep love for the starry sky imparts a luminous and vibrant richness to this poem, "To the Glory of the Heavens." The third and fourth lines, for example (repeated... Read More...

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