The Sound of the Universe
When
June 10 and 11, 2023
16:00 and 20:00 p.m.
Where
Porch of Saint Joseph
This shows leads visitors on an immersive journey inside a very special spacecraft, equipped with a “sound machine” which transforms the light of celestial bodies into sounds. The viewers will be invited to enter a planetarium and to be led into the Atacama desert, where the Very Large Telescope is located, up to threshold of the Solar System: a journey where everyone is … all ears!
Sense involved
The "Circolo Astrofili Veronesi" [Club of Veronese Amateur Astronomers] was establsihed in the Fifties by part of a group formed by a dozen very active amateur astronomers, among whom Carlo Recla. They were mainly telescope manufacturers. This group had the honour of publishing and editing the “Bollettino Astronomico Triveneto” [Astronomical Bulletin of Triveneto], a publication which went alongside the glorious astronomical journal of those years in that region: Coelum (the complete collection is present in the library of our Club). The group was short-lived: from 1954 to 1958, then it broke up.
Later on, a few other groups were established, which have left very few traces. It is known that, at the Museum of Natural History, at the turn of the years '60es-'70es the "Veronese Astronomical Society" was established and chaired by R. Toledano. The '70es witnessed the foundation of the "X4" group (approx. 1973), a group not strictly scientific (“X4” stands for 4 branches of occult science: over and above Astronomy, they studied also parapsychology and ufology). There was also the "Mario Spada" group, constituted by astronomy amateurs who gathered "in the shadow" the well-known telescope manufacturer from Verona.