COSMOPOETRY INTERNATIONALS XXIV:
NEEDING MORE COSMOS


Dedicated to the memory of Steve Sneyd (1941-2018)

III. ECLIPSES AND MORE


COMET 46P/WIRTANEN IN JAPAN
Photographic astropoem by Kouji Ohnishi (Japan,
international astrophotography laureate)





GOOD HERALD
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Once a comet announced the new year
Full of solar and lunar eclipses.
Enjoy them - she said -
Without fear!

LOOKING FOR COMET WIRTANEN FROM MY COURT YARD
(Timisoara, Romania)
Photo by Andrei Juravle



COMET WIRTANEN IN AUSTRALIA
Photo (remote control, T8, Siding Spring Observatory, Australia)
by Lionel Majzik (Hungary,
international astrophotography laureate)



COMET WIRTANEN OVER COMANA (ROMANIA)
Photographic astropoem by Andrei Nica







COMET WIRTANEN IN GERMANY
Photo by Adrian Zota (Romania,
residing in Germany)



WHEN A COMET PASSED…
By Bucur Cezar Mihail

When I lost my love in the night
A comet trickled into the oceanic entity
And I hope that forgetfulness will not dig for it
An anonymous place in eternity.

COMET WIRTANEN IN HUNGARY
Photo by Lionel Majzik (Hungary,
international astrophotography laureate)



COMET WIRTANEN IN ROMANIA
Photo by Maximilian Teodorescu
(international astrophotography laureate)



COMET WIRTANEN OVER ROMANIA
(January 4, 2019)
Photo by Vlad Dumitrescu



COMET WIRTANEN IN TENERIFE
(2018-12-02, 2018-12-04, 2018-12-05,
2019-01-09)
Photographic astropoem by Fritz Helmut Hemmerich (Germany,
residing in Tenerife,
international astrophotography laureate)









THE STAR THAT I LOST AND RE-FOUND IN THE PLEIADES
By Mircea Pteancu
(president of the Galaxis Astroclub)

The identification code of the star is
Cl Melotte 22 1426
and without a spectral classification,
it appears with an orange color in the pictures
of DSS2 , Panstarrs/DR1 and Mellinger.

Even if this star (that I lost and re-found)
is not a red giant / carbon star,
it is interesting to study it
just because in the Pleiades
the White Stars Party is dominant.

THE PLEIADES, A GEMIND METEOR AND COMET WIRTANEN
Photo by Ciprian Vintdevara
(coordinator of Barlad’s Planetarium and Observatory,
discoverer of a red nova)



CELESTIAL PHOTO-POEMS 2019:
TRAVELLER
Astro-series of words and images by George Tanase

Moon, Sun…
and a celestial little man…







ATROHAIKU
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Unfinished business -
partial solar eclipse
for sky stock exchange

PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE IN JAPAN
(January 16, 2019)
Photo by Yasuhiro Tonomura (Japan,
Nippon Meteor Society, Oriental Astronomical Association,
International Meteor Organization)



PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN JAPAN
(January 16, 2019)
Photographic astropoem by Kouji Ohnishi (Japan,
international astrophotography laureate)





PARTIAL ECLIPSE OF A BISKUIT
Photo by Thilina Heenatigala (Sri Lanka,
former national coordinator of Astronomers Without Borders,
astronomy educator at Leyden University, the Netherlands)



PERIHELION AND APHELION
Photo-collage by Mihai Dascalu
(Bucharest Municipal Observatory)



PERIGEE AND APOGEE
Photo-collages by
1. Catalin Paduraru “Sarpe”
(international astrophotography laureate)
2. Mihai Vladut
3. Csere Mihaly







NEWS (INCLUDING THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION)
FROM DRACULA’S TOWER
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore







LUNA THE CONFIDENT
By Bucur Cezar Mihail

Please, Moon, with your clear light
Be my friend and my sister,
Lighten my colorless life’s dance
And fill it with an astral romance!

NIGHT SKY - FROM NGC 7331 TO MOON
Photographic astropoem by Eugen Balint









ASTROART AT BAIA MARE’S
PLANETARIUM AND OBSERVATORY
1. 50-year jubilee;
2. Astrophotography;
3. Children’s astroart;
4. Milky Way, artwork by Victoria Lahbun
5. M31, picture by Eduard Andrei Mociran (age 18)











CLOSER MOON
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore







LUNAR ECLIPSE
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

A shadow right on the Moon’s face.
Is it sadness, or just grace?

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
(January 21, 2019, near Bucharest)
Photographic astropoem by Catalin Paduraru “Sarpe”
(international astrophotography laureate)







TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE NEAR DRACULA’S TOWER
(January 21, 2019, Targoviste)
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore





TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE AND A VENUS-JUPITER CLOSENESS
(January 21, 2019, Arges River)
Photographic astropoem by Maximilian Teodorescu
(international astrophotography laureate)











TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE OVER GERMANY
(January 21, 2019)
Photo-collage by Klaus Lowitz (Germany,
born in Romania)



PRAISE
By Tit Tihon (Romania,
residing in Canada)

Accept, Milky Way, a mild praise,
Perhaps too many and useless words,
Through the darkness from where I come
Only the longing for eternity overwhelms me.

I see myself far away on the horizon of life
In the mane of the comets that vaguely sigh
With tears prolonging through worlds
Forgotten by undemonstrated, guilty theories.

I am far away, lost on a living planet,
Straying shuddered among spiral galaxies,
Sooner or later I’d like
To be cloned by Fibonacci in a formula.

And I also want to pay praise
Watching full of admiration through the lunette:
I greet Jupiter’s satellites as friends,
Wonderful Universe, well-invented Galileo.

“GALILEANS”
Photo by Valentin Grigore



ASTRO-RIDDLE
Astro-photo-poem by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)

When you watch it through the night
You see just a small spot
And two beautiful stripes.
(Is it Jupiter? Or not?)



JUPITER
Photo by Constantin Sprianu



WHISPER
By Bucur Cezar Mihail

When the heart cries, the sky sheds tears,
The sad separation hides the suns
And oblivion breaks the rainbow…

But a simple whisper of love chases away the clouds
And liberates the celestial show!

MAKE ROOM FOR RAINBOW
Atmospheric photographic poem by Ciprian Grigorescu





RAINBOW
Photo by Ovidiu Vaduvescu
(Romania-Canadian-Spanish astronomer residing in the Canary Islands,
leader of the EURONEAR Project)



DANCERS IN THE SKY
Atmospheric photographic poem by Valentin Grigore















LITERATURE IN NATURE
By Boris Marian (Mehr)

You are great, literature,
written by sick bipeds,
long phrases, frost and warmth,
you try to not believe them,
an ideal lost in words,
whipping wooden ears
and pride.

How many girls, my God, do know
they carry a star inside?

SOLAR PRINCESS (I)
Photo by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)



UNIVERSAL CONNECTIONS
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Stellar dynamics,
Just a delicate section
That reveals (more or less)
Inter-stellar affection.

SOLAR PRINCESS (II)
Photo by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)



CONSTELLATION OF LOVE
By Bucur Cezar Mihail

Even on the first morning, the Creator made
A superb astral form, the “Constellation of Love”.
Subjecting the abyss from nonentity to annihilation
He thought that love will be the source giving life.

Then so many seconds, years, centuries and millennia passed,
Ephemeral feelings trickled into the world and died,
But the sacred Evening Star still shines like a light of love,
Unextinguished fire mirroring on the lakes…

You began to fly through the galaxy, my love,
And I feel alone in the black hole of the cruel separation,
Erased from the pink file of happiness,
But I meteoriticly confront the bitter jokes of destiny…

A poor apprentice in astronomy, I watch the sky by lunette,
It would be good to find that constellation,
But I see only desert stars, so I revolt because of my impotence
And put the lunette in the pocket - it is not able
To find at least the planet of our love
Buried by a rain of comets.

But I don’t despair,
I get a rocket-taxi
With the solar wind in my hair.

FATHER AND DAUGHTER
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore and Cosmin Sorin Miclos











LOOKING FOR EUROPEAN SUNDIALS IN 2019
(Cluj Library - Romania; German Sundial Conference - Ortenburg;
Dobrovat, Targu Mures, Salva, Sant - Romania;
Marsaslokk - Malta)
Astro-photo-poem by Dan Uza

A sundial,
After all,
Can ennoble
Any wall.



























EGYPT
Photographic astropoem by Mohammad Maghdy (Egypt,
residing in UAE,
director of communication at the Dubai Astronomy Group)







ASTRONOMER DISCIPLE’S ADVENTURES 2019:
MIRAGE OF LIGHT
Astro-photo-poetry series by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)









Always toward
an astral mirage…



BALKAN SUN
(1-2. Ceahlau, Romania
3. Fagaras, Romania
4. Solar Halo with Sundogs in Basko, Bulgaria)
Photographic astropoem by Dana Badoi









CONQUERING THE FOREST
Photographic astropoem by Casper ter Kuile (the Netherlands,
Dutch Meteor Society, International Meteor Organization)







HONORING THE SUN AND THE MOON IN 2019:
OTHER SOLAR DETAILS
Astro-series of words and images by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)











SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
THE CULMINATING POINT
Astro-creation by Valentin Grigore

Series: “Once in a lifetime.”
Concept: “Observing New Horizons”
Target 2019 (July 2nd): “Total Solar Eclipse - Chile”









SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photographic astropoem by Attila Munzlinger
(co-vice-president of the Magyar Astronomical Association of Transylvania)









SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photo by Radu Gherase



TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Moon, you don’t tire
To eclipse the Sun,
While I just become
Much too old to run.

SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
DIAMOND RINGS
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photographic astropoem by Cami Pap (USA,
born in Romania)













SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photo by Vlad Popescu



SARM’S OVERSEAS EXPEDITION 2019:
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photographic astropoem by Dan Zavoianu







MAGAZINE “STIINTA SI TEHNICA / SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUE”
EXPEDITION 2019:
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
(July 2, 2019, Chile)
Photographic astropem by Catalin Beldea
(international astrophotography laureate)











SKY AGAIN
By Catalina Teodorescu (age 16,
graduate of SARM’s summer school of astronomy (and astropoetry) -
Runcu Stone 2019)

I watch the sky again,
It seems changed,
And I want to understand,
From slices,
Its beauty and light,
But it is too loaded with mysteries
That are concentrated in a line
Between a strange “something”
and humanity.

NORTHERN LIGHTS IN SWEDEN
Photo by Mihai Florea (Romania,
residing in Sweden)



NOCTILUCENT CLOUDS IN NORTHERN EUROPE
Photos:
1. Noctilucent Clouds in Poland,
by Pawel Kalinowski (Poland)
2. Noctilucent Clouds in Denmark,
by Mihai Curtasu (Romania, residing in Denmark)
3. Noctilucent Clouds in Germany,
by Adrian Zota (Romania, residing in Germany)







PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE
(July 16, 2019, Bucharest)
Astro-photo-tipuritura (strigatura) by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Partial eclipse in my mind?
Not when the dark is so kind!



PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN BARLAD
(July 16, 2019)
Photo by Ciprian Vintdevara
(coordinator of Barlad’s Planetarium and Observatory,
discoverer of a red nova)



PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE IN ROMANIA
(July 16, 2019)
Photographic poem by Maximilian Teodorescu
(international astrophotography laureate)









CELESTIAL PHOTO-POEMS 2019:
THE MOON
Astro-series of words and images by George Tanase

I adorned the Moon
…and I started to Jupiter… excuse me… to the Moon.

I saw a partial lunar eclipse
and even the Moon and Jupiter.









But once I went to photograph the Moon and …
I don’t know what I photographed!



LUNAR PASTORAL
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore







NICE MOON OVER ROMANIA
Photos by:
1. Radu M. Anghel
2. Ioan Petrea
3. Mihai Golu







NICE MOON OVER GERMANY
Photo by Adrian Zota (Romania,
residing in Germany)



URSA MAJOR
By Eduard Dorin Ene

Transformed into a she-bear,
Kallisto met Arcas
And they travelled together
On the canopy of heaven.

They created memories,
Watching candidly the night
And watched by even the old star
Groombridge 1833.

They used a chariot of fire,
Dressed a circumpolar waistcoat
Against the cold,
Admired the game of the stars,
Praised Mizar and Alcor
(“Horse and Rider”)
And chose Ursa Major.

An amazing dance surrounded them,
With spontaneous embraces of
Irregular galaxies, fantastic spirals
And nebulae able to overthrow a myth
For which Zeus consulted vestals.

THE GREAT CHARIOT
Photo by Ciprian Vantdevara
(coordinator of Barlad’s Planetarium and Observatory,
discoverer of a red nova)



ROMANIA’S FINAL
OF THE NATIONAL ASTRO-PHOTO-QUATRAIN TOURNAMENT
(in both Romanian and English;
translations by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)



Carul Mic și Carul Mare
Două forme pe cer sunt
Și nu știu cum de Tu, Doamne,
Ai pus boii pe pământ!

Little Chariot and Great Chariot,
Two forms in the sky. Quite profound.
But I don’t know how You, Holy God, could
Put the oxen right on the ground!



Author: Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)

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Ucenicul Astronom
Nu merge la cosmodrom
Ci are mai mândrul scop
De-a zbura prin telescop.

Astronomer Disciple,
Beyond any principle,
Has an incredible scope:
To fly through the telescope!



Author: Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
(director of the Cosmopoetry Festival)

STREET ASTRONOMY IN AUCKLAND
Photographic poem by Danut Ionescu (New Zealand,
born in Romania)







CELESTIAL PHOTO-POEMS 2019:
SHOOTING STAR
Astro-series of words and images by George Tanase

I made a wish
on a Perseid meteor
of -3 magnitude…



PERSEIDS 2019
Photo by Andrei Savah



PERSEID FIREBALL
Photo by Tudor Schraer



PERSEID TIMES
Photographic astropoem by Andrei Juravle







COMETS IN 2019
Selections from technical-humanistic fusion astroarticles
by Adrian Bruno Sonka
(coordinator of the Bucharest Municipal Observatory)

1. Comets - observed in 2019

The images are made through two telescopes:
one of 0.5 m in diameter (placed at the Berthelot Observatory)
and one of 0.4 m in diameter (placed in Bucharest).
Both telescopes belong to
the Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy.













2. Made in another solar system
(first published in Romanian in September 2019)

On August 30, 2019, the Ukrainian astronomer Borisov discovered an object.
It was not a stone in a river but an apparently banal comet,
so little light that he could barely see it through the 60cm telescope
at his disposal.

If the brightness of a comet is diminutive, it means that it is either far or small,
in that case the first variant is correct.
After more observations (because after the discovery of a comet,
observations are required for determination),
it was seen that its orbit is not “close.”
It does not… what?

Close! It is not close.
The orbit of the Earth has a shape similar to that of a circle,
while the orbits of the comets are ellipses.
So if you are a comet and your orbit is an ellipse,
it means that there is a place where you are closer to the Sun (perihelion)
and one where you are further away (aphelion).
In this case, the aphelion is absent.
So the orbit does not close, which means that it is only a trajectory
which bends beside the Sun as if the object in motion through the Universe
is forced to pass next to our star.
That’s why it is named “inter-stellar comet”.

Comparison between the orbits of Comet Halley and C/2019 Q4 Borisov.
One is close, the other is not.
Guess which one bends and which one does not.



The extension behind the trajectory goes far away,
to inter-stellar space where
the constellations Cassiopeia and Andromeda are visible,
while the other end stretches to the southern hemisphere,
toward the constellation Telescopium.
(…)
The comet becomes brighter,
but it is visible only through large telescopes,
passing close to the Sun at a distance of 300 million kilometers.
If that is “close” - it means that the Earth is included in the Sun.



ADVICE FOR INTER-STELLAR ALIENS
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Do not confuse Europa (a satellite near Jupiter)
With Europe (a continent on Earth) please!
You’ll certainly find
A different breeze!

MOON AND JUPITER OVER THE LOUVRE MUSEUM
(PARIS, FRANCE)
Photo by Valentin Stoica



ASTRO-MEMORIES FROM CENTRAL EUROPE
Photo-collected by Adela Muntean











IRISH TRADITIONS UNDER STARS
Photo by Miruna Popescu (Northern Ireland,
born in Romania)



THOUGHT
By Catalin Voroniuc

You swim in that nothing without fissures
like a star without name,
absurdly,
without depth…

just because
I stole your darkness.

DARKNESS AND LIGHT
Photos:
1. Dark clouds in Vienna (Austria), by Fanica Luminita Tudor
2. Moon near Dracula’s Tower Chindia (Targoviste, Romania), by Valentin Grigore
3. Closer to the Sun - Burj Khalifa (Dubai), by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe







RADU FAMILY
Astro-photo-poem by Gelu Claudiu Radu (Romania,
residing in Germany)



Near the Tower of Pisa
(so dear to Galileo Galilei)
we seemed to be a normal family.

We just seem to be…









ON THE TRACES OF GALILEO AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PADUA
Photographic poem by Florin Alexandru Stancu







SUN GALLERY
1. Sunset in Yucatan (Mexico) - by Mircea Bodea
(USA, born in Romania)
2. Sun in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) - by Dan Uza
3. Sun in Austria - by Emmanuel Schwalb
(Israel, born in Romania)
4. Sunset at the Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy) - by Gelu Claudiu Radu
(Romania, residing in Germany)
5. Sunset over Targoviste (Romania) - by George Tanase
6. Sunset at the Mediterranean Sea (Malta) - by Dan Uza
7. Toward the Sun in Harghita (Romania) - by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
8. Collecting the light in Seattle - by Bogdan Ioana
(USA, born in Romania)
9. Sunset over the Arabian Desert - by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe



















HONORING THE SUN AND THE MOON IN 2019:
SOLAR PROMINENCES
Astro-series of words and images by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)









MEDALION 2019
Astro-photo-poem by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)



A year
from a tree on the way
of the sunrise…















… to a partial lunar eclipse,
the transit of Mercury across the Sun’s disk,
Orion with Sirius…







MERCURY’S TRANSIT (1)
-November 11, 2019-
Photos by
1. Sorin Hotea
(coordinator of AstroInfo-SARM)
2. Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)
3. Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)







THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY OVER HORODNIC
In the spirit of astro-photo-prose poem,
by Dimitrie Olenici
(Suceava’s Planetarium and Observatory)

Initially we arranged the instruments
in a garage with a west-facing door
and began the observations.

After the Sun hid behind a fence
we jumped to it
and continued observing.

The weather was excellent,
but after 16:30
the Sun set behind the mountains…
and we stopped observing.







TRANSIT OF MERCURY 2019
Photographic astropoem by Mihai Vladut







ON THE DAY OF THE PLANET MERCURY’S TRANSIT
IN TARGOVISTE
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore





TRANSIT OF MERCURY IN GALATI
Photographic astropoem by Galati’s Planetarium and Observatory
(led by Jan Ovidiu Tercu)







A MORAL SUPPORTER FOR MT’19
Astro-photo-poem by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

I always like to see
Astronomers on duty
Trying to catch a dream
Of heavenly beauty.



MERCURY’S TRANSIT (2)
-November 11, 2019-
Photos by
1. Ciprian Vintdevara
(coordinator of Barlad’s Planetarium and Observatory,
discoverer of a red nova)
2. Octavian Blagoi
(Astronomical Institute of Romanian Academy)
3. Eduard Andrei Mociran (age 18)
4. Catalin Paduraru “Sarpe”
(international astrophotography laureate)









CELESTIAL PHOTO-POEMS 2019:
THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY ACROSS THE SUN
Astro-series of words and images by George Tanase



A grain of sand in transit
Disturbing almost all
In a sea of fire.
It’s just Mercury the Small.



TRANSIT OF MERCURY 2019
AT THE BUCHAREST NATIONAL CHILDREN’S PALACE
Photo by Mihai Rauta and Dragos Brasov
(president of the Urania Astronomical Association);
processing by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)



TRANSIT OF MERCURY IN GERMANY
Photographic astropoem by Klaus Lowitz (Germany,
born in Romania)







TRANSIT OF MERCURY 2019 AT PAULESTI
Photographic astropoem by Constantin Sprianu





TRANSIT OF MERCURY 2019
Photographic astropoem by Maximilian Teodorescu
(international astrophotography laureate)











HONORING THE SUN AND THE MOON IN 2019:
TRANSIT OF MERCURY IN BUCHAREST
Astro-series of words and images by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)



It is said that sometimes
just one image is worth a thousand words.

But… what about an image
that leaves you speechless?



TRANSIT OF MERCURY IN PAULESTI
Photo-collage by Cristian I. Popescu



MERCURY AND BIRDS CROSSING THE SUN’S DISC
Photo by Andreea Cretu



MERCURY AND AN AIRPLANE OVER THE SUN’S DISC
Photo by Razvan Alexandru Duta



THE EARTH-MERCURY ROUTE UNDER THE SUN
Photo-collage by Cosmin Sorin Miclos and Liviu Stoian



AFTER THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY (ASTROHAIKU)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

Sad, cold Moon Sickle:
“I’ll never be transited
by the hot planet.”

THE MOON SICKLE AND MERCURY
Photo by Dan Uza



SHE IS A NEW ASTRONOMER
By Dan Mitrut
(World Cosmopoetry Champion 2017)

Here is a young student of mine
that I chose for public debut
in the astronomy world:

she kindly accepted
to keep my score of astrofolk music
at an astrohumanistic gala
in the Bucharest Municipal Observatory…



FROM A VENUS-SATURN CLOSENESS
TO THE WINTER SOLSTICE DAY
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore









SANTA KLAUS - ADAPTATION 2019
Photo-collage by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)



CELESTIAL PHOTO-POEMS 2019:
GAMES
Astro-series of words and images by George Tanase



When I played
with the Sun and the Moon…



SANTA KLAUS RUNNING AFTER
THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY
Photo-collage by Cosmin Sorin Miclos and Liviu Stoian



HOLIDAY WISH
In the spirit of astro-photo-haiku,
by Eugen Filipescu



Warm winter dreams,
Silence near the dears,
Good news from the Magi!

SANTA CLAUS VISITING
THE FRIENDS OF “SIRIUS” IN BARLAD
Concept by Ioan Adam
(president of the Sirius Astronomical Association)



BEST WISHES FROM LINZ (AUSTRIA)
Photo-collage by Johannes Stuebler (Austria,
AWB international ambassador and national coordinator,
international astrophotography laureate)



ANNULAR SOLAR ECLIPSE (ASTROHAIKU)
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

My darling, would you
accept from me a gold ring
without a diamond?

ANNULAR SOLAR EXCLIPSE IN GUAM
(December 26, 2019)
Photographic astropoem by Osamu Ohgoe (Japan,
top globe trotter in the observation of the solar eclipses)









FROM UAE TO FUTURE
A promising message on the solution of an impossible problem,
by Roger Hambleton (Canada/Poland,
residing in Dubai,
Astronomers Without Borders’ national coordinator for UAE)

I have been working on many VIP astronomy events lately,
and I have been thinking about writing a document
to advise amateur astronomers on how
to make money from their hobby.

(I owe you a few pictures, too.
Some of them are from an outreach we did in September,
one of them is of the Desert Camp where we do paid shows,
a couple of them are from the Annular Eclipse we had here in December).

All the best in 2020!











ANNULAR SOLAR EXCLIPSE IN UAE
(December 26, 2019)
Photographic astropoem by Mihai Vladut













HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Photo-wish by Gabriel Corban
(international astrophotography laureate)



ASTRONOMER DISCIPLE’S ADVENTURES 2019:
WEEKEND ASTRONOMER DISCIPLES
Astro-photo-poetry series by Cosmin Sorin Miclos
(president of the Astronomer Disciple Association)

“We organize
weekend astronomer disciples …”







Happy New Year!



END OF 2019
WITH THE SUN, THE MOON AND VENUS
(the heavenly bodies which are reproduced on the Romanian national flag)
Photographic astropoem by Valentin Grigore













A BOOK OF THE SKY
In the spirit of astro-photo-haiku,
by Marcel Jinca

Things are complete when
the Holidays come together with
astronomical news



WORKING FOR COSMOPOETRY.RO -
BEST WISHES FROM THE WEB MASTER - DESIGNER
FLORIN ALEXANDRU STANCU
Photos by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe







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