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WATCHING THE PARACHUTISTS' TOWER “Alone in the sky, I started laughing like a child who had managed a hug.” -Smaranda Braescu (English translation from Romanian by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)- If meteors were beings, they would feel something similar to what the parachutists feel. Smaranda Braescu (born in 1897) was a Romanian female pilot who set women's world record for highest parachute jump (6,000 m in 1931, with a Romanian pilot) and the absolute world record for highest parachute jump (around 7,000 m in 1932, with an American pilot). Unfortunately, she died in 1948, persecuted by the new totalitarian regime installed...
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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,...
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A KING IN TARGOVISTE Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Valentin Grigore Saturn and Jupiter between the walls. But Jupiter has a protective sovereign crown! Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment Click Here to Login
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UNDER SAHARAN DUST Astro-photo-poem (cosmopoem) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe On September 3, 2020, I walked up the Filaret Hill and saw the first Bucharestian train station, which was made in 1869 and is now a minibus station. I hope it will become a spaceship station because I intend to orbit the planet Earth to observe better the effects of Saharan dust on the Sun's rays. Comments You need JavaScript to be able to post comments You need to be logged in to leave a comment Click Here to Login
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A MAJESTIC VISIT Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore Queen Venus visiting her subjects from the clusters of stars! After on April 3, 2020, as the queen in the evening sky, she visited the Pleiades, on September 13, 2020, as the queen in the morning sky, she passed M44, also called Praesepe, the cluster from the constellation Cancer, which was described by Claudius Ptolemy and studied through his telescope by Galileo Galilei. Two stars (ignored yesterday, respected today) watched this majestic visit: Asellum Borealis (Gamma Cancri) and Asellum Australis (Delta Cancri), fierce guardians of the glorious cluster. Comments You need JavaScript to...
