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In January 2009, at UNESCO in Paris, we had the chance to meet Mike Simmons and to see his lecture on Astronomers Without Borders and the magnificent exhibition of The World At Night. -We related about those events in SARM at UNESCO-IAU-IYA under the Sign of Galileo http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/sarmatunescoiauiyagalilei/
Afterwards, very impressed by the extraordinary 100 Hours of Astronomy project and the ideals of AWB (to unite sky lovers, amateurs and professionals, from all over the world, and to make them give their best for astronomy and the large public), the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) tried to add its own contribution to the International Year of Astronomy, mirrored in the 15th pages of the international project Astropoetry to the International Year of Astronomy http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/
As a form of gratitude, we dedicated the largest chapter of this project to AWB, at the 4th Quarter page http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/4th.html
And we end this message with the complete variant of Andrei Dorian Gheorghe’s Hymn to 100 Hours of Astronomy
FROM GALILEO TO 100 HOURS OF ASTRONOMY
Life in the Cosmos has scopes Better seen through telescopes!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 TELESCOPES
80 telescopes, sky meanings, And incalculable feelings!
24-HOUR GLOBAL STAR PARTY
So much shine! How happy we are! Today the Earth is quite a star!
100HA JUNIOR
Children and a telescope, Closer dreams and much more hope.
100 HOURS OF REMOTE ASTRONOMY
Telescopes, computers, and skies. Here and there, us, superior eyes.
SUN DAY
To the glory of Sun Day, Sunspots are quiet. O.K.!!!
THE LEGACY OF 100HA
The certain way for human flight: A future richer in starlight.
We wish all of you to have a Happy Astronomical Year 2010, Valentin Grigore and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe |