For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (260): Inertia of Inertia (106)

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For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (260): Inertia of Inertia (106)

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Published: Wednesday, September 16 2020 19:27

IN THE CAROL I PARK
(Bucharest, July 21 and 28, 2020)
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

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The Carol I Park (inaugurated in 1906)
includes an impressive monument
dedicated to the heroes of the nation
and suggesting the structure of a church tower,
which was conceived in the 1920s
and realized in the 1950s.

That place also offers
a spectacular perspective of the city.

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I imagined its elements as planetary orbits
and I tried to catch inside them
the photographically accessible bodies
of the solar system:
the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter.

Then, outside the solar system,
I caught a symbol of the flight:
the star Altair or Alpha Aquilae.

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