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Space Artist, sky observer and photographer. Processor of space images. Interested in Astronomy, Planetary Geology, history and in what the future may bring.
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There is a moment in twilight launches like the one tonight that makes me think of incredibly close encounters between Earth and comets that must have occurred over time. Here we see a launch from Vandenberg briefly appearing to fly parallel with the Southern horizon as seen from Joshua Tree, Calif.

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A revised idea for signs for Saturday. The earlier version was misleading, although many references for 'crown, King' etc symbology included little balls at the ends of the points.

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Just over 13 years ago, June 5, 2012, Venus passed in front of the Sun. I observed it through a solar telescope and made sketches, from which I made these digital paintings. By turning the filter I could get a safely filtered visible light view or a H-Alpha view revealing prominences etc. #SciArt

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Yesterday was a day of beautifully moody clouds. All day the parched High Desert Soil was sprinkled with thin moving masses of light rain, with isolated flash floods as in 29 Palms East of here. Lightning echoed from that direction. The cloud ceiling broke in the distance letting the sun rays in.

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When the Lunar Orbiter 4 spacecraft gave us our first good view of the Orientale basin it was revelatory. Not only was this giant multi ringed impact basin first revealed in its general form, other such basins were recognized across the Lunar near side. Oil paints on canvas panel.

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A mysterious and fascinating place is the center of our galaxy. As optical and radio telescopes have improved we see more details of this enigmatic and dynamic region. On the left we see a radio image of the activity surrounding the central black hole, on the right a recent JWST Infrared image.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

As night falls people in the more Northerly US should go to a dark site and have a look toward the North as aurora is especially active tonight. It may be more of a 'phone camera' event than a visual one but have a look when possible during the night as midnight is nominally when they are best seen.

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