For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (313): Inertia of Inertia (159)

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

Published: Monday, November 30 -0001 00:00

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ORION
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Victor Anestin (1875-1918)
founded the astronomical magazine
“Orion” in 1907,
and every high school in the Romanian Kingdom
became a subscriber to this publication
during the mandate of astronomer Spiru Haret,
the Romanian minister of education at that time;
in its pages, Victor Anestin also published
astronomical poems by the Romanian national poet
Mihai Eminescu
and the astronomer poets
Gabriel Donna and Alexandru Anestin.

In 1991-1993,
Danut Ionescu re-founded “Orion”,
attracting the Romanian elite
of amateur and professional astronomers;
in its pages, he also published
a mini-series of astropoems written by me.

On August 28-29, 2020,
I looked through
the recent (second) collection of Orion
again after a few years.

Finally, I went to my balcony
and I saw how even
stellar Orion came to me,
rising from a close tree.