ON THE OCCASION OF THE CLOSING CELEBRATION OF THE YEAR 2024 AT THE ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY (AIRA)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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On December 13, 2024, I participated with a program of astropoetry at the year-end celebration of the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, being invited by its director himself, dr . Mirel Birlan (who, returning to Romania after more than twenty years of activity at the at the Paris Observatory, produced a real “revolution”, involving AIRA - beyond the usual research activities - in the popularization of astronomy for the general public and in participations at astronomical, scientific and cultural events throughout the country).
At this event I read thirteen entertaining astro-quatrains (very difficult to translate into another language) and an astropoetry (which I reproduce below).
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PRAISE FOR PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMERS
(To Mirel Birlan)
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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Professional astronomers work
in special observatories and
study the sky through large telescopes,
make analyses, draw conclusions
and launch hypotheses on a superior scale:
who we are,
what surrounds us,
where we are going.
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Their activity is not
an unnecessary luxury
in a poor world,
but on the contrary,
they are knights fighting to enrich us
with the precious knowledge of
the supreme divine organization
(of which we are a tiny part)
called the Universe.
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