Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (309):
AIRA’s Asteroid Day 2022 (9)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poetical chronicle) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
Jean Dragesco’s old black and white astrophotos (nebulae, galaxies, comets, planets, etc.)…
Valentin Grigore’s digital astrophotos (meteors furrowing the sky - in the Milky Way, Pleiades, etc.)…
First, I watched the mini-exhibition of the first one, which also included solar and lunar details.
Jean Dragesco was born in 1920 in Romania.
He created an association and a magazine of astronomy in 1938, and in 1940 he emigrated to France, where he became a great astrophotographer - multiple laureate in the United States, Great Britain and France.
One of his works (about two neighboring deep sky objects) exhibited at AIRA inspired me to compose the following astropoem:
SOMEWHERE IN CYGNUS
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
How would it be
if I flew across North America
riding a pelican?
I have thought about this many times,
but I live in Cygnus,
on the dark band of interstellar dusk
that separates the North America Nebula
from the Pelican Nebula,
so this dream of mine
will never come true!
#poetry