Astronomica

File No.PIA10969
NASA/JPL

Newtonian celestial mechanics
Transit of Venus
apparition of Halley's Comet
parallactic methodology
refining the astronomical unit.

Telescopic astronomy
honouring, celebrating Galileo.
Lunar, Jovian observations.
Astrophysics, planetary astronomy;
astrobiology, instrumentation;
guide and mentor.

Evolutionary astronomy
marking, remarking the solar system.
Domain of organic life.
Visual, observational astronomers
craft of celestial surveillance.
From "life on other worlds"
to Hawking's radiation.
Sun and stars moving in orbit.

We, the centre of the
Stellar universe.

c. 2009 Rita Rosenfeld