Space is Big!

[catherine]

Gorgeous, bae!

https://www.wikiart.org/en/eyvind-earle/nocturne-1991

Bae this latest set of Photos reminds me so much of the work of artist/illustrator Eyvind Earle. Many of his subjects were black trees in the forefront of highly colored evening backgrounds.

Very cool painting. I never heard of the art style "magic realism"!

[iris lilies]

Gorgeous, bae!



Very cool painting. I never heard of the art style "magic realism"!

i’ve always been drawn to what is called “commercial art “ or “illustration art” of the fantasy variety. Eyvind Earl worked for Walt.Disney studios but of course sold his own works as well. Another illustrator who did some work for Disney in set designs and film was Kay Nielsen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_..._Nielsen_9.jpg

[catherine]

Just today I saved to my "inspiration journal" this artist a saw on the FB page Illustrious Botanical Illustrations. Here's an article about her--her name is Katie Scott. Scroll down to the painting I was really drawn to called Botanicum--Wild Flower. It's kind of in the same style you're talking about.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...4ZTiU5Q4LSRRxA

[iris lilies]

Just today I saved to my "inspiration journal" this artist a saw on the FB page Illustrious Botanical Illustrations. Here's an article about her--her name is Katie Scott. Scroll down to the painting I was really drawn to called Botanicum--Wild Flower. It's kind of in the same style you're talking about.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandde...4ZTiU5Q4LSRRxA

Beautiful work. I do tend to like things with black backgrounds. I recently bought three small works by a local artist that are lovely little still life paintings, and they all have a black background and for my eyes they are striking.


I’d like this artist’s Nike shoe work, funny.

[bae]

Great art pointers, inspiring!

[LDAHL]

I've been working on some algorithms recently for deep space astronomy.

Here's some initial fiddling with some observations I've taken over the past few weeks. This is just a start, I expect vastly better results once I get a handle on some problems, get a bigger array of computers, and layer more data - each of these is generally about 30 minutes of telescope time, in several frequency bands, layered.

I’ve often wondered: if the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

[catherine]

Get your camera out, bae. There is going to be a parade of planets tonight.

https://www.space.com/5-planet-align...ng-opportunity

[happystuff]

Get your camera out, bae. There is going to be a parade of planets tonight.

https://www.space.com/5-planet-align...ng-opportunity

I'm hoping it's a clear sky when I get home from work tonight!

[bae]

This is a terrible photo, technically, as I just held an iPhone up to the eyepiece of a specialized solar telescope I am experimenting with. Still, it shows you just how scary the nearest star to our planet is!

I expect to have vastly better photos once I manage to mount a real camera to the eyepiece, or figure out how to get the phone mounted to it - the eyepiece has a terribly small amount of eye relief, so hand-holding the phone is nearly impossible - I took about 10 photos to get even this vaguely useful one.

With the naked eye, it's quite terrifying to watch the features on the sun's surface move around, and the flares and prominances soaring above the surface. Especially when you consider the scale!

[littlebittybobby]

Yes---Space is reallly, reallly big. Yup. What I was thinking, since the US is king of the world, is that we should go ahead and claim the Universe as US territory. Yup. Then, expand the USGS to begin surveying the Universe, so we can parcel it out & sell space. Not only will this help pay off the national debt, this greatly-enlarged gummint agency will provide much-needed employment for the homeless, illegal immigrants, and other marginalized groups. Thankk mee for this very(x4444) brilliant solution.