#spacetober — Public Fediverse posts

For the #Spacetober prompt future, my speculative little painting of a future where tourists can visit Venus. With 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure & a surface temperature which can reach 460°C & melt lead, high altitude balloons have been proposed as perhaps the only likely human habitat on Venus. Short term high altitude balloons with instruments have been used to gather data there…. Who knows? Maybe one day they will house people.

#sciart #SpaceArt #Venus #planetarySci #travelPoster

For the #Spacetober prompt future, my speculative little painting of a future where tourists can visit Venus. With 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure & a surface temperature which can reach 460°C & melt lead, high altitude balloons have been proposed as perhaps the only likely human habitat on Venus. Short term high altitude balloons with instruments have been used to gather data there…. Who knows? Maybe one day they will house people.

#sciart #SpaceArt #Venus #planetarySci #travelPoster

The #Spacetober prompt is Artemis today so I have made a digital collage of my Earth and Moon from previous prints to show the trajectory of Artemis I, the uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission that was launched in November 2022 and marked the beginning of NASA’s Artemis program, the agency’s first return to lunar exploration since the Apollo program (which ended before I was born).

#linocut #multimedia #printmaking #sciart #spaceArt #ArtemisI

For the #Spacetober prompt orbit: my portrait of #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced the circular orbits with elliptical ones & described velocities of planets. Today we know them as:
🧵1/n

#sciart #histsci #MastoArt #Kepler #geometry #PlatonicSolids #mathematics #musicOfTheSpheres #linocut

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is #Wavelength! ORION ILLUMINATED was my first #JWST #watercolor, revealing the Star-forming regions of the Orion Nebula, seen in infrared wavelengths.

#Spacetober2024 #Spacetober #SpacetoberChallenge_04
#SpaceArt #SpaceArtist #SciArt #watercolorArt #art #painting #Space
#MastoArt #MastoArtists #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #ArtistsOfMastodon

Working on a new print for #Spacetober - got out my old used bookstore copy of ‘Murmurs of Earth’ by Carl Sagan, about the Voyager Interstellar Record and more to think about the upcoming “Carl Sagan/Cosmos” prompt. I ended up wanting to portray a different message sent into space: the Arecibo Message. 🧵1/2

#linocut #printmaking #AreciboMessage #space #sciArt #astronomy #spaceArt #MadtoArt

For the 2nd #Spacetober prompt: Moon. The delightful term for a group of moths is an eclipse. This hand-printed lino block print shows 5 of the noctural moths of Ontario in front of the moon at a lunar eclipse. The 5 moths are: the gorgeous green Luna moth (Actias luna), the yellow & purplish-pink Imperial moth (Eacles imperialis), 🧵1/n
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #moth #eclipse #moon #typography #lettering #termsOfVenery #insects #Ontario #pollinators #MastoArt

For the final #Spacetober prompt “Future” my linocut is a space travel poster for a future where we all share the citizenship of Earth and can take rapid transport to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, known as the Galilean Moons for Galileo, who first observed them with a telescope.

Europa, Jupiter's smallest moon is considered one of the most likely locations in the Solar System for potential habitability.

#linocut #printmaking #sciArt #spaceArt #JupiterAscending #travelPoster
#MastoArt

New Horizons was the first spacecraft to explore dwarf planet Pluto up close, arriving in 2015 after a 9 year journey. You might recall images which revealed that the surface of Pluto resembled a large heart. For #spacetober prompt New Horizons I am sharing my tiny linocut of Pluto. (It’s about the size of a Canadian twonie coin).

#linocut #printmaking #Pluto #sciart #spaceart #spacetoberchallenge #miniPrintTuesday #dwarfPlanet #planetaryScience #MastoArt