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By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (text and photos) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
- Published: Tuesday, October 13 2020 18:36
A GREETING TO BERTA
Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
On September 5, 2020,
the Morning Moon guided me
to the Bucharest Municipal Observatory,
where I found a solar reflection
as an officer
signaling a special museum room.
After the completion of this building
in the form of a yacht in 1910,
Admiral Vasile Urseanu
brought here from Germany
a respectable Zeiss astronomical lunette
that became over time
“the grandmother of amateur astronomy in Romania”
just because it was open to the public at large
and so many people “technically” watched the sky
through it for the first time.
Moreover, the Romanian sky lovers
enjoyed it so much that
they nicknamed it… “Berta”!
After I greeted old Berta
(now a pilgrimage piece)
I started satisfied to other activities,
letting the bright officer
do his duty further.
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