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A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (7) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 2 days ago
December 27, 2023, on the terrace of the Bucharest Municipal Observatory. I saw people becoming friends with the Moon. #poetry

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (6) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 3 days ago
December 27, 2023, through the halls of the Bucharest Municipal Observatory. People interested in the "star factory", an old telescope coveting the maps of the sky… and a child dreaming of visiting other planets. #poetry

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (5) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 4 days ago
December 27, 2023. The Sun near the observatory of the National Children's Palace… the Moon among the illuminated trees for the Winter Holidays… and Jupiter over the Bucharest Municipal Observatory. Heavenly bodies are sometimes very close to us. #poetry

Black History Month

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 5 days ago
Black History Month Tradition has it that Black Natives Ran naked uneducated through The jungles of Africa, so they say! But history paints the picture Another way. Language did abound In Africa way back when, when Jesus Walked the earth and before that my Friend! In Acts 8:26-40, we find Philip speaking with a Bible reading African, one of whom from 400 BC Had Ge’ez as a Ethiopian written Language available to him. Now Reading Hebrew and taking it all in! Other African languages were written Back then. Some were recorded as Early as 5000 BC ( Proto-Saharan), my friend. Needless to say Hieroglyphs isn’t all there was! We ...

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (4) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 5 days ago
December 21, 2023 at the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, the day before the winter solstice. A celebration where I read some astropoems. I hope the Moon was satisfied! #poetry

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (3) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 6 days ago
The middle of December 2023 in Bucharest. The first snow, the growing Moon… and the sunset between truth and legend. #poetry

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (2) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 9 days ago
December 11, 2023. I went to the Italian Cultural Center in Bucharest and I visited a spectacular exhibition from the European Space Agency: images taken by satellites with our planet! The candid art of the Earth delighted me, but when I went outside I saw how the destructive art of light pollution caught Jupiter in a trap. #poetry

Jupiter

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 10 days ago
Jupiter at 7:38 PM PST on January 28, 2026. Image was a projection from an 80 mm short tube Refractor into a Cellphone camera. Image credit to Clarence G. Underwood. . Jupiter . Jupiter is on high in the sky tonight. At 7:38 pm on this Wednesday night. It is in the Eastern sky. Galileo saw It with his first scope in 1610 He saw three Moons that First night. We have three Tonight in sight, Europa, Ganymede And Callisto. Galileo made his First observation of Jupiter on the 7th Of January 1610. Tonight Is January 28th 2026. Four hundred And sixteen years and 21 days ago Galileo may have seen the Same configuration you know! ...

A FABULOUS ASTRO-TOUR IN DECEMBER 2023 (1) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 10 days ago
The first days of December 2023 in Bucharest. Morning Moon, some colors in the sky and a sunset near the astronomical observatory of the National Children's Palace gravitationally attracting attention about the future of astronomy. . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (EPILOGUE 2) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 11 days ago
THE ANNOUNCEMENT GIVEN BY THE DOUBLE CLUSTER IN PERSEUS AND CASSIOPEIA Astropoem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe Photo by Valentin Grigore . The winter meteors of the Twin Brothers are very beautiful, but the shows must go on! And we are authorized to inform you that Perseus promises, in turn, a great meteoric summer rematch! . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (EPILOGUE) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 18 days ago
-FAVORITE MEMORIES . SUNSET Astro-photo-poem by Valentin Grigore . . And yet, the Sun, when he leaves us for other lands, becomes the most talented painter. . . MY FAVORITE MEMORY By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . Somewhere in the Winter Triangle, three meteors in one second and two more in the next three seconds... the short, bright and intense story of a heavenly family! #poetry

On A Clear Night

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 19 days ago
. On A Clear Night . The weather has cleared, We can see the stars. Orion is up, but I miss Mars. Saturn is sinking In the west, but Jupiter Is putting on a show which Rivals its best. The Pleiades Are high in the sky. Which Also means Taurus is very High. The Big Dipper and M51 will Appear later in the sky. There are so many things To fill my eye! With my Wonderful C8 I can hardly Wait for the sky to get dark. So, those things I can spy, On a clear night! . By Clarence G. Underwood #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (10) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 23 days ago
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . After a Geminid night, the meteor observer goes to sleep under the blanket of the Sun. . . . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (9) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 24 days ago
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe . Sunrise at Runcu Stone - new day with the untouchable bright giant . . . . . . #poetry

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (8) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 25 days ago
A mini-anthology of SARM with teachers in astronomy and astropoetry . METEORS By Valentin Grigore (founder of the modern school of meteors in Romania) . Drops of light from the Universe achieve their goal only if they vibrate within us. . ESCAPE FROM THE SOLAR SYSTEM (OR BECAUSE OF POLLUTION) By Dan Mitrut (teacher, former astronomy educator in SARM camps) . Only the shadow of an urban hermit, perched on a skyscraper, with the celestial eye open indecent, watched gods, heroes and kings rowing in the sky like galley slaves . soon we won’t even know what 3I/ATLAS was! . PHAETON By Tit Tihon (math ...

SARM’S GEMINID EVENT 2025 (7) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 27 days ago
A specialized youth mini-anthology of SARM . Oh young stars and always the same classical duty: to give more light! (Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) . THE STORIES OF LIGHT By Anastasia Sima (13 years old) . The Sun goes down And the stars appear Weaving in the dark Immortal stories that rise Like astral stoves. . WAITING FOR GEMINIDS By Stefan Cristache (high school student) . The old springs have dried up The rain of heavenly sands. The starry darkness cries Without bodily needs. . MOON\ By Sofia Birliba (high school student) . In the mist of night we lie, a pearly eye pierces the gaze like a stained ...

Ursa Major

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 28 days ago
Ursa Major . . Ursa Major . Ursa Major has a well Known asterism. It goes By several different titles. The Big Bear also known as The Big Dipper and Charles’ Wane, carries with it many Pictures which aren’t the Same! The Indians saw a Bear, while the Settlers saw A water dipper. The English Saw a wagon. Each had a Perspective based on their Daily life experiences. Just Goes to show how we are Today. We can all look at the Same thing and have some Different things about it to say! #poetry

Jupiter in the Sky

By Clarence G. Underwood posted 28 days ago
Jupiter in the Sky Jupiter in the Sky! By Clarence G. Underwood Four moons stand out and say I’m here! With symmetry I could see them clear. Jupiter was split in half I’d say, with two Moons on each side it looked like a ballet. Perhaps it’s a Battleship with two Destroyers On each side. Ready for battle from which One Comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 couldn’t Hide. The biggest planet in our solar system You know. It protects the Earth from comets And so, it may hurl them into outer space or Perturb their orbits. And by God’s Grace, Protects the human race. Either way it's like a Traffic Cop, that brings dangerous ...

UNBELIEVABLE

By Mirosław Wójcik posted 29 days ago
Image details: Artist’s impression of a rogue planet in Rho Ophiuchi Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser/S. Guisard (www.eso.org/~sguisard) https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso2120a/ ––– |UNBELIEVABLE| I t's just unbelievable what may be far beyond yet uncharted space… We strive to gather as much knowledge we can, sometimes without success It's just unbelievable that one day we'll be capable for interstellar travels However, the significant stage has been already achieved by much advanced ETCs * It's just unbelievable that we haven't officially established ** radio contact so far… Nevertheless, ...