Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Basilicos, Cor Leonis, Stella Regina, Regulus

Regulus...what a poetic star.

Here is a poem I found recently by the Greek astronomer-poet Theodore Stephanides....

"I teach Man with the atom of his brain to weigh a flaming sun in wisdom's scales, to gauge the Galaxy from pole to pole, to read the secret of each starry train; and in the Infinite's unwinding trails, to lose mortality and find the soul."

Such poetry and dreaming these stars do bring.

Friday, 16 April 2010

Mars sails past the Beehive.

The trusty Red Vixen will be out and about on the nights of May 3rd, 4th and 5th, hopefully to witness Mars as he sails past Praesepe (the B...