Friday 10 March 2023

Sol - 10/03/23 - Camille Flammarion

 This morning's sol image:


Any excuse to put in a Camille Flammarion quote, he is one of my all time favourite astronomer/poets.


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What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling in the azure sky, even through the weakest of telescopes, and not be struck by it in an intensely pleasurable way, not feel cut off from everyday life here on Earth and transported toward that first step on celestial journeys?

Camille Flammarion
Some years ago I wrote a blog post about Mr Flammarion, here is the link: 
https://pembsastronomer.blogspot.com/2012/04/astronomy-and-poetry-go-hand-in-hand.html


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