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Astrophotography By Richard Hammar

“The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich . . . that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. ” – Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

About Me

Richard Hammar

Attorney, financial expert and author by day – astronomer by night – Richard Hammar is a premier astrophotographer in the Springfield Missouri area. You can follow his journey here on this website as he takes photos of the heavens and tells his story of faith and family. Read more in his bio page and view more of his astrophotography. Pictured with him in this image is his wife Christine Hammar.

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GALILEO GALILEI

GALILEO GALILEI (reporting on his first observations with a telescope)

“Beyond the [faintest stars the eye can see] you will behold through the telescope a host of other stars, which escape the unassisted sight, so numerous as to be almost beyond belief.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay On Nature (1836)

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the rememberance of the city of God which had been shown!"

Ptolemy

Ptolemy c. 150 AD (a note written in the margin of his greatest work, the Almagest)

"Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth."

Charles Spurgeon

"He who counts the stars and calls them by their names is in no danger of forgetting His own children."

Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

"The treasures hidden in the heavens are so rich . . . that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment."