ASTRONOMY AROUND THE DARMANESTI CASTLE
The 12th edition of SARM’s Perseid Event in July-August 2004
(main organizers: Valentin Grigore, Dan Mitrut and Diana Maria Ogescu)
was quite original, including two consecutive camps
(a national one and an international one)
in the same place, Darmanesti (Bacau County),
next to a castle built by the princely family Stirbey in 1906.
Photo by Casper ter Kuile (Holland)
1ST CAMP
The national camp took place in 2004 July 19-30,
and included a summer school and a youth contest of astronomy,
sky observations, astroexhibitions,
and an afternoon of astrofolk music (played by Dan Mitrut)
and Romanian astropoetry.
PHOTO-ESSAY
by Dan Mitrut
DARMANESTI HAIKU
by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
waiting for meteors
at a Romanian castle
ghosts of fireballs
PHOTO-ESSAY
by Alex Conu
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2ND CAMP
The international camp took place in 2004 August 9-14,
had participants from 4 European countries (being honoured by the presence
of some well-known members of the International Meteor Organization:
Casper ter Kuile, Jos Nijland and Arnold Tukkers from Holland,
Cis Verbeeck and Jean-Marc Wislez from Belgium, Daniel Fisher from Germany, etc.),
and included: exchanges of experience,
meteor (visual, photographic and video) observations,
a special night with observations in double station (in Darmanesti and Corbasca),
and also a cultural afternoon, with astrofolk music (played by Dan Mitrut),
an astro-dumb-show (by Jean-Marc Wislez from Belgium),
and international meteor poetry.
PHOTO-ESSAY
by Casper ter Kuile (Holland)
PERSEID EVENT 2004 CONCLUSION
by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
An old Romanian proverb says that
people should be brothers
with forests.
Paraphrasing it,
people may be happy
if they are brothers
with nature.
People may be even happier
if they are brothers
with meteors.
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Design: Florin Stancu
© 2010 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)