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Mircea Pteancu

22 Ian 2017 19:39



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Ce putin s-au schimbat anumite lucruri in suta de ani care a trecut !
Citat din Flammarion , extras de pe situl lui Enrico Moltisanti din Italia si care vizeaza asteptarile exagerate ,prea optimiste ale incepatorilor intr-ale observatiilor astronomice.
Am subliniat fraza-cheie si care spune ca ...''aceste amabile doamne se asteapta sa vada intr-un sfert de ora tot ceea ce noua ne-a luat douazeci de ani sa observam''.
Ideia este ca pe langa toate echipamentele este nevoie de antrenament ,de timp ,de formarea deprinderilor de observator.
Fiti asadar ingaduitori cu echipamentul vostru si cu voi insiva , faceti observatii cat mai des si astfel veti deveni buni observatori ai cerului instelat.

"You have the most gracious of your readers cover me with rebuke - the pleasant director of the Paris Observatory, admiral Mouchez told me one day - since, full of enthusiasm from your descriptions, they rush into the observatory insisting to see, to observe this and that, and then they... thank me saying our instruments are not worth anything! These gentle ladies expect to see in a quarter of an hour all that which has taken us twenty years to observe; they believe the stars reveal their secrets all the time, they expect the atmosphere to suddenly clear for their beautiful eyes and that the telescope is always in focus; and finally, when for some reason or other they do not manage to see what they saw in your drawings clearly, sharply and large in the eyepiece, they leave huffily and furious, grumbling that 'ce n'est pas cela du tout' (that's not it at all)."


Camille Flammarion

(from: "Stars and Curious Things of the Heavens", Paris, 1881)