Bogumil Pacak-Gamalski
I love taking picture of the skyline. Small disclaimer, though: I am not an astronomer and do not use any complicated telescopes or other instruments to scan the vastness of space. Rather more like the Ancient Ones – I admire and I am at awe looking at the splendor of night or very early skies. No wonder so many of them over the millenia constructed wonderful stories, religions, songs and poems. How can you not?
Of course I do have a slight advantage over them – unlike Homer and others I do actually have an instrument that does a pretty good pictures (with all it’s limitations) of bright giants hanging above our heads.
September 19 was a rare moment to see Venus very clearly and close to the Moon, which was just a sliver of itself, and therefore not blinding the view of Her Majesty Venus. But that is not all my children – from far, far away in a constellation of Leo (let’s call it a stellar town) came a star called Regulus. Mind you – it is a giant much bigger than Earth and Moon combined but the humongous distance makes it look like a speck. On one or two of my pictures I could capture it on my film. I have marked it with writing so you don’t mistake it for a speck of dust on your screen, LOL.
O! Venus grandiose and splendid
in your graces, full of caprices,
allow yourself to be painted
in all your jewelry pieces!
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