Fw: [SEML] Re: Fwd: (meteorobs) meteor lovers and the total solar eclipse

[Bruce McCurdy]

    My compliments to Valentin and SARM for their beautiful "passport" to 
Turkey and their poetic insights on the experience of a total solar eclipse.
( http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/passport/index.htm )
Those list members who haven't made it there yet, the site is *well* worth 
the visit IMO.

    Because it was directly on-topic, I took the liberty of forwarding 
Valentin's post to the Solar Eclipse Mailing List. The response on that list 
of Daniel Fischer may be of interest to the international meteor community, 
at  least in a "mark your calendars" sense. His PS about our exuberant 
Romanian friends somehow didn't surprise me. I hear it's possible to have 
fun in California ...

    Bruce
    *****



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Daniel Fischer
To: SEML at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [SEML] Re: Fwd: (meteorobs) meteor lovers and the total solar 
eclipse


Incidentally there is another great opportunity coming up to combine solar 
eclipses (theoretical)
and meteor observing (practical): First you attend the 3rd Solar Eclipse 
Conference in Los Angeles from Aug. 24 to 26, 2007, then you head into the 
Calfornian desert or mountains and watch out for a potential major outburst 
of the Alpha-Aurigids on September 1, 2007 - which incidentally is best 
observed from ... California! I would like to advertise this unique 
opportunity to the meteor community as well, but for that it would be 
essential the website for the 2007 SEC would be complete: 
http://uk.geocities.com/solareclipsewebpages@btopenworld.com/SEC2007Fees.html

is still devoid of any cost figures. (Thus at the moment you can already 
register without refunds,
yet you don't even know what it will cost.)

Daniel

P.S: I've encountered the Romanian astro-poets in action numerous times - 
they always perform at the International Meteor Conferences as well as the 
Perseid Camps. The first time I saw them was during the banquet of a 
*professional* meteor conference, though, in Tel Aviv in 2000, when they 
were performing a wild dance on the tables, to the consternation of the 
restaurant waiters ...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: bmccurdy at telusplanet.net
To: seml at yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 3:45 PM
Subject: [SEML] Fwd: (meteorobs) meteor lovers and the total solar eclipse

Give or take the occasional forecast from the ever-reliable Joe Rao, there's
generally not a lot of overlap between my two favourite lists, namely SEML 
and
the Global Meteor Observing Forum (meteorobs). Both are dynamic and 
beautiful
but otherwise disparate branches of astronomy.

This gulf was recently bridged by the Romanian Society for Meteors and
Astronomy who sent a large group to Turkey for the March 29 TSE. This group 
is
already noted for its occasional publications of astropoetry, so it came as 
no
surprise that they have assembled a beautiful website to commemorate the
occasion.

http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/passport/index.htm

Highly recommended.

Bruce
*****

----- Forwarded message from Valentin Grigore <vali_sarm at yahoo.com> -----
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:56:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Valentin Grigore <vali_sarm at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Global Meteor Observing Forum <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Subject: (meteorobs) meteor lovers and the total solar eclipse
To: IMO-News Mailing List <imo-news at yahoogroups.com>

"The meteor lovers always looked for
total solar eclipses,
hoping to see an original fireball-
a nimble jewel greeting in a hurry
the solar diamond prominences."
-Andrei Dorian Gheorghe-

The Romanian Society for Meteor and
Astronomy-SARM invites you to see a special page,
Famous Meteor Lovers Look For A Total Solar Eclipse,
from a web site entitled Passports For A Heavenly
Expedition, which includes several IMO members and IMC
participants.

So please visit
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/passport/index.htm

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Valentin Grigore
President of SARM - Societatea Astronomica Romana de Meteori
(Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy)
Calea Domneasca 214, bl.48, sc.A, ap.6
Targoviste 130016, Dambovita, Romania
phone: +40 245 213851, +40 0722829034 (gsm)
e-mail: vali_sarm at yahoo.com, vali.grigore at gmail.com
http://www.sarm.ro
http://www.geocities.com/valisarm
http://www.cosmopoetry.ro
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SARM is the national astronomical society of Romania
and an youth organization
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