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Photograph taken at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Ptolemy
"The heavens declare the glory of God." -- Psalm 19:1
"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars
makes me dream." -- Vincent van Gogh
Welcome To Eric Jamison's Astronomy and Photography Home Page
I have been interested in astronomy since I was a child, and began observing the stars, constellations, and two total lunar eclipses in the early 1960's. In 1971 I observed a total solar eclipse, and purchased my first telescope in 1972. I set this web page up to help encourage and inspire other observers.
On these web pages you will find articles I have written on choosing a telescope, telescope aperture considerations, equipment reviews, and historical astronomy, including well-known astronomers from the past. Also you will find some of the drawings I have made of the planets, deep-sky objects, comets, as well as astrophotographs and nature photographs I have taken. Please feel free to stop by from time to time as I will be adding new drawings and articles in the future.
All photographs, drawings, and articles: © 2008, Eric Jamison, All rights reserved.
Thanks for visiting my web page. If you have any comments or questions please send me email.
"There is a grandeur, an almost overpowering sublimity in the scene that no language can fully express." -- George P. Bond, after observing The Orion Nebula with the 15" refractor at Harvard College Observatory, 1847
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are two unaccountable freaks. They came in together, they must go out together'." -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), April, 1910
"I recollect a night of broken clouds And underfoot snow melted down to ice, And melting further in the wind to mud. Bradford and I had out the telescope. We spread our two legs as we spread its three, Pointed our thoughts the way we pointed it, And standing at our leisure till the day broke, Said some of the best things we ever said. That telescope was christened the Star-Splitter..." -- Robert Frost, from his poem entitled "The Star-Splitter"
"It's difficult to imagine anyone viewing every object within reach of a 6-inch telescope, not to mention a 12-inch". -- Walter Scott Houston.
"If a telescope can fit into your backyard it's too small. If you can't move it, it's too big." -- John Dobson
"What do you want you moon-faced assassin of joy?" -- Ambassador Molari to his assistant Vir on Babylon 5.
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody.
Now I see that I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin
"You would leave me notes on my pillow... we are out of corn flakes again, FU. Took me three hours to figure out that FU stood for Felix Unger" -- Oscar Madison, played by the late Walter Matthau, talking to Felix Unger, played by the late Jack Lemmon, in the movie "The Odd Couple"
"There is no such thing as inclement weather, only inadequate dress." -- Dr. Helmut Landsberg
"I get the news I need from the weather report. I can gather all of the news I need from the weather report." -- Simon and Garfunkel, from the song "The Only Living Boy in New York"
"I think over again my small adventures. My fears. Those small ones that seemed so big. For all those vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing. The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world." Old Inuit Song, from the movie "Never Cry Wolf"
"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." -- Winston Churchill
"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship
between the eye and the heart."
"With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the
other eye that is open, one looks without."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, renowned photographer
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"We must use the tools that we have." -- Abraham Lincoln
"If we do not all hang together we will surely hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin
"When the calculating starts the thinking stops." -- Dr. Helmut Landsberg
"It is not so much what we have, but rather how much we enjoy what we have, that makes us happy." -- Anonymous
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow." -- Robert Goddard
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." --
Henry David Thoreau
"We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate ~ we can not consecrate ~ we can not hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here." -- Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863
"Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her... and how I'll ever be able to... tell her about days like today." -- Captain John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, from the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
"The war is over for me now, but it will always be there for the rest of my days. ...those of us that did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life" -- Private Chris Taylor, played by Charlie Sheen, from the movie "Platoon".
-- In memory of all of our veterans --
Web page last updated: March 17th, 2008
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Photograph taken at the National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Ptolemy
"The heavens declare the glory of God." -- Psalm 19:1
"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream." -- Vincent van Gogh
Welcome To Eric Jamison's Astronomy and Photography Home Page
I have been interested in astronomy since I was a child, and began observing the stars, constellations, and two total lunar eclipses in the early 1960's. In 1971 I observed a total solar eclipse, and purchased my first telescope in 1972. I set this web page up to help encourage and inspire other observers.
On these web pages you will find articles I have written on choosing a telescope, telescope aperture considerations, equipment reviews, and historical astronomy, including well-known astronomers from the past. Also you will find some of the drawings I have made of the planets, deep-sky objects, comets, as well as astrophotographs and nature photographs I have taken. Please feel free to stop by from time to time as I will be adding new drawings and articles in the future.
All photographs, drawings, and articles: © 2008, Eric Jamison, All rights reserved.
Thanks for visiting my web page. If you have any comments or questions please send me email.
"There is a grandeur, an almost overpowering sublimity in the scene that no language can fully express." -- George P. Bond, after observing The Orion Nebula with the 15" refractor at Harvard College Observatory, 1847
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The almighty has said no doubt, 'Now here are two unaccountable freaks. They came in together, they must go out together'." -- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), April, 1910
"I recollect a night of broken clouds And underfoot snow melted down to ice, And melting further in the wind to mud. Bradford and I had out the telescope. We spread our two legs as we spread its three, Pointed our thoughts the way we pointed it, And standing at our leisure till the day broke, Said some of the best things we ever said. That telescope was christened the Star-Splitter..." -- Robert Frost, from his poem entitled "The Star-Splitter"
"It's difficult to imagine anyone viewing every object within reach of a 6-inch telescope, not to mention a 12-inch". -- Walter Scott Houston.
"If a telescope can fit into your backyard it's too small. If you can't move it, it's too big." -- John Dobson
"What do you want you moon-faced assassin of joy?" -- Ambassador Molari to his assistant Vir on Babylon 5.
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin
"You would leave me notes on my pillow... we are out of corn flakes again, FU. Took me three hours to figure out that FU stood for Felix Unger" -- Oscar Madison, played by the late Walter Matthau, talking to Felix Unger, played by the late Jack Lemmon, in the movie "The Odd Couple"
"There is no such thing as inclement weather, only inadequate dress." -- Dr. Helmut Landsberg
"I get the news I need from the weather report. I can gather all of the news I need from the weather report." -- Simon and Garfunkel, from the song "The Only Living Boy in New York"
"I think over again my small adventures. My fears. Those small ones that seemed so big. For all those vital things I had to get and to reach. And yet there is only one great thing. The only thing. To live to see the great day that dawns and the light that fills the world." Old Inuit Song, from the movie "Never Cry Wolf"
"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." -- Winston Churchill
"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart."
"With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without."
Henri Cartier-Bresson, renowned photographer
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
"We must use the tools that we have." -- Abraham Lincoln
"If we do not all hang together we will surely hang separately." -- Benjamin Franklin
"When the calculating starts the thinking stops." -- Dr. Helmut Landsberg
"It is not so much what we have, but rather how much we enjoy what we have, that makes us happy." -- Anonymous
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and reality of tomorrow." -- Robert Goddard
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined." -- Henry David Thoreau
"We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we can not dedicate ~ we can not consecrate ~ we can not hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here but it can never forget what they did here." -- Abraham Lincoln, from the Gettysburg Address, 19 November 1863
"Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her... and how I'll ever be able to... tell her about days like today." -- Captain John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, from the movie "Saving Private Ryan".
"The war is over for me now, but it will always be there for the rest of my days. ...those of us that did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life" -- Private Chris Taylor, played by Charlie Sheen, from the movie "Platoon".
-- In memory of all of our veterans --
Web page last updated: March 17th, 2008
Free counters provided by Honesty.com.
Free counters provided by Honesty.com.