SARM’S PERSEIDS 20
AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHIC POEMS

The 20th edition of SARM’s Perseid event took place in August 2012
in the Cindrel Mountains (Romania).

Being a jubilee, this edition was supplemented in September 2012
by an expedition to the “realm of telescopes”, La Palma (Canary Islands),
the seat of the largest optical telescope in the world (GRANTECAN).

Then, as a corridor to Perseids 21,
SARM commemorated in 15 January 2013
at the Dambovita Library in Targoviste, Romania
the birthday of the Romanian national poet Mihai Eminescu (1850-1889),
and 130 years since he published his masterpiece,
the astronomical poem “Luceafarul” (The Evening Star or Hyperion),
which, later, was appreciated by the World Academy of Records
as the longest love poem in the world.

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STARRY NIGHTS AT SARM’S PERSEIDS 20
-photographic poem by Valentin Grigore
(founder and president of SARM,
founder and organizer of all Perseid events)-











































LA PALMA!!!
-photographic poem by Valentin Grigore-





















ROMANIAN EXPEDITION 2012 IN LA PALMA
-photos by Valentin Grigore and Ovidiu Vaduvescu
(founder and leader of the EURONEAR Project,
professional astronomer in La Palma,
born in Romania)-









HOWEVER…

For a real sky lover
it is not enough to admire
just simple starry nights.
He must look for
starry nights
with meteors
and starry nights…
with telescopes!

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

STORIES WITH METEORS AT SARM’S PERSEIDS 20
-photographic poem by Valentin Grigore-







…and in La Palma!



OBSERVATIONAL NIGHT IN LA PALMA
-photographic poem by Valentin Grigore-



































STORIES WITH TELESCOPES IN LA PALMA
-photographic poem by Valentin Grigore-

























EMINESCU
(“the Evening Star of Romanian Poetry”)
AND COSMOPOETRY
-photos by Ciprian Grigorescu and Cristian Daniel Grigore-

Not especially Evening Stars,
Not especially maidens,
Eminescu is great anyway,
His martyred and gifted eyes
Observed how any forbidden love
Comes from celestial heights…

-Princess of Astropoetry, Targoviste-



For Romanians
to say
EMINESCU
is not like to see
the stars
turning round
Polaris,
but just like to see
the “Romanian” Danube
and the “Romanian” Carpathians
turning round
the Evening Star.

-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

























































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