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400 years after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei
looked at the sky through a telescope for the first time,
provoking a major revolution in astronomy,
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
and the International Astronomical Union
decided a special one-year celebration,
which began with a fabulous meeting in the “city of light”,
composed of two successive super-events.
This certainly was the greatest festival of astronomical culture
of all times.
And we were there…

SARM
at
the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
and
the International Astronomical Union
for
the International Year of Astronomy 2009
under
the Sign of Galileo

(Opening Ceremony,
2009 January 15-16,
and Symposium 260
“The Role of Astronomy in Society and Culture”,
2009 January 19-23,
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France)

-Photo-Chronicle
by
Valentin Grigore (photographer) and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (chronicler)-

Design: Florin Stancu

© 2009 SARM
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)

OPENING CEREMONY
ASTRONOMICAL PARIS
SYMPOSIUM 260