Evening among the stars on Siena Tv: “Stories to tell” at the Astronomical Observatory
‘The day was full of lightnings, but now the stars will come, the silent stars’ (Giovanni Pascoli). ‘Plot your course to a star and you will overcome any storm’ (Leonardo da Vinci). ‘And then we went out to see the stars again’ (Dante Alighieri). How many thoughts about the stars! Who among us has never stopped to look at the sky on a summer night, or on a cold winter evening ?! The night of San Lorenzo transforms us all into attentive observers, in search of the shooting star that makes us dream. On the other hand, there are those who perpetually scan the sky, looking not only at the stars, but at everything that makes up the infinite mystery of the Cosmos. Come for example Alessandro Marchini, director of the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Siena that for one night we distracted from his passion, which has become a profession, to let us tell his story to “Stories to tell”Broadcast tonight on Siena TV at 9.30 pm.
Alessandro for 40 years, also presented the Sienese basketball stars, as speaker during Mens Sana matches, and there there was no need to stand with your nose up … He will mysteriously tell us about the charm of the Universe , also the prof. Vincenzo Millucci, one of the founding fathers of the Siena Observatory, who thanks to Elena Cardaioli will tell us about the meteor shower that occurred in Val d’Orcia in 1794 and other Sienese anecdotes. One of these celestial bodies is kept in the Fisiocritici, where we promptly went, thanks to the hospitality of Chiara Bratto, intrigued and fascinated by so much mystery.
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