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Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
This bronze statue of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (Mikołaj Kopernik) is located on Krakowskie Przedmieście, in front of the Staszic Palace, the seat of the Polish Academy of Sciences. It was designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1822 and completed in 1830. The monument was funded by the scientist and philosopher Stanisław Staszic as well as donations from the general public.
Soon after the German occupation of Warsaw began in 1939, they placed a large plaque over the statue’s pedestal, proclaiming Copernicus to have been German....
On 11th February 1942, a "minor sabotage" operation was carried out by Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski (code name “Alek”), a young Polish resistance fighter from the “Szare Szeregi” organisation, who removed and hid the German plaque.
Minor sabotage: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_sabotage
The Germans responded by removing the Jan Kiliński statue from Krasińskich Square and hiding it in the vaults of the National Museum. Dawidowski and his comrades in the Szare Szeregi retaliated by daubing the museum with graffiti which stated: "People of Warsaw - I am here - Jan Kiliński", and adding a new plaque to the Copernicus monument on which they had written the following words: "For the removal of the Kiliński statue I am extending winter by two months - Kopernik"....
Szare Szeregi: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Ranks
The statue was damaged during the Warsaw Uprising, after which the Germans knocked it off its pedestal and subsequently stole it as they were evacuating Warsaw. It was later found in the town of Nysa, restored and replaced in its original location in 1949.
In 2007 a representation of Copernicus’ solar system, modelled after an image in his “De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium”, was embedded in the square in front of the monument.
In 2017 a plaque commemorating Dawidowski’s action was placed next to the monument.
There are replicas of the Copernicus monument in Montreal and Chicago....
Taken Wednesday 28th August 2013 using a Neximage 5 with a Celestron C6-SGT and stacked using Registax 6.1.
In this shot you can see thre large crater Copernicus and the arc of the Apennine Mountains.
Images obtained as an .avi video through a 60mm refractor using an Orion Starshoot II USB Eyepiece Camera.
Best 176 of 438 images stacked with Registax 6. Wavelets applied. Post-processing with Photoshop CS5.
Picture taken on the occasion of the ESCoP Summer School on Consciousness, Zakopane (PL), July 20-20th, 2012
Nikon D3s + 24-70mm f/2.8G | Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL, 1 Jun 2011
© 2011 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Towering over Solidarity Drive in front of the museum's main entrance is an 8 1/2 foot tall bronze statue of astronomical revolutionary Nicolaus Copernicus. It was given to the city of Chicago by The Copernicus Foundation and the Polish-American Congress to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Copernicus' birth in 1973. The monument outside the Adler is a replica, recast from sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen's plaster model. The original bronze sculpture was in Warsaw, Poland in front of the Polish Academy of Science until it was destroyed in 1944 during World War II.
The sculpture depicts the scientist gazing to the heavens, holding in his hands two essential tools of early astronomers: a compass and an armillary sphere. According to Bill Wilhelm, Operations Manager at the Adler, the armillary sphere has twice been stolen and is now designed to prevent theft.
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Hahaha.... Poor cat.
Because Kellie was coming to babysit The Boys as I was out of town, I decided that their bathtime was long overdue. It actually went far better than usual (they get a bath about every 2-3 months) since Brian wasn't around to be putting a video camera in their face. Copernicus only said "no" three times!
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai
Luna del año pasado.
El crater que se ve en toda la línea que divide la parte en sombras, de la parte iluminada, se llama copérnico. Coincidencialmente quedó así, yo la verdad no sabía nisiquiera cómo se llamaba en ese instante.
Ese crater está en una mancha grande, pero hay otras manchas grandes a la derecha. La primera gran mancha grande a la derecha es el mar de la serenidad. debajo de esta se encuentra el mar de la tranquilidad, que es donde descendieron Neil Armstrong, Buzz y otro más. Diagonal, hacia abajo está el Mar del nectar y al lado, el Mar de las crisis.
Genial los nombres, no? Esos astrónomos que les pusieron esos nombres eran como medio-poetas.
U Srcu je 23. i 24. listopada 2019. godine održan Copernicus Hackathon, natjecanje u okviru Copernicus programa u organizaciji Geodetskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Zagrebu za Hrvatsku i Sloveniju, a 25. listopada Copernicus konferencija.
His statue sits in front of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus_Monument_in_Warsaw
Mission control team in the main control room at ESA's ESOC mision control centre on 21 Nov 2020, just a few hours prior to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Credit: ESA/J. Mai