Danut Ionescu was a great popularizer of astronomy in Romania, where he ran a magazine and a radio show in the 1990s, then moved to New Zealand, where he remained an active amateur astronomer with astropoetic flashes. This time he insisted that the work below also include two photos of the Magellanic Clouds (satellite galaxies of the Milky Way), the first by the founding president of SARM, Valentin Grigore (July 7, 2019, Vale de la Luna, Atacama, Chile), and the second even by Danut Ionescu (January 12, 2024, Tokoroa, New Zealand), as “a symbol of unity and friendship through Astronomy”.
Special thanks for technical support to Alex Vizitiu.
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MAGELLANIC CLOUDS
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Magellanic Clouds,
children of the Milky Way,
good for aphorisms.
(Danut Ionescu)
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Magellanic Clouds,
a large one and a small one,
they don’t rain at all!
(Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)
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#poetry