Summer Solstice balloon installation

 Summer Solstice 21.06.25

Sarah's garden

Action shots

Balloons 

Sunrise 2nd October 2011.

Sunrise.

My Astro sketchbook.

Four pages from my Astro sketchbook.

Enjoy!

The solar disc and some clouds 2007.

I came across these images today.

They were taken in 2007 when I made my camera obscurer.

They are striking.

For more information click on the link below to see my post written at the time.

Solar shadows.

How to draw a meteor shower.

How to draw a meteor shower?
Believe it or not. it's really easy.
All you do is draw the meteors using reverse tone. Black equals white and so on. Then simply scan your drawing and transform it into negative using a photographic enhancement programme.

The recent meteor showers have reached a dazzling peak. The Perseid Meteor Show. AKA the Tears of St. Lawrence, named due to the anniversary of his martyrdom AD 258.

I observed one last night, I think it was a meteor? It didn't look like a plane. It must have been a meteor because it disappeared along a trajectory. What with the Moon and local light pollution and cloud cover.

My drawings are based on some photographs I observed on the BBC NEWS website.

Calendrical error?

Oh my days...

There's an eclipse coming on Venusday ~not~ on Marsday.

This Tuesday there's an eclipse coming!

Yes, this Tuesday (010808) a SOLAR ECLIPSE is swinging it's way upon us.

The path of totality will commence in Arctic Canada and travel across Greenland, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia and conclude in China. Totality will be witnessed by many fortunate indigenous people living in it's shadow and many, many travellers from around the globe, who are placing their ambitions in the oh~so random cosmos. Luckily for us Northern Europeans, a partial eclipse of the Sun will be visible, weather permitting, or fingers crossed for a cloud break.

A SYZYGY - wow - what a fantabulous word.

(...the alignment of 3 or more celestial bodies in the same gravitational system along a straight line.) What a happening! RARE. If you are reading this now, after the event, what was it like for you? Were you really there?

I have put together a few links to help out with your research.

What is Universal Time (UT)?

Path of the Eclipse.

Map of the Eclipse. (Google Earth)

Live WEBCAST from China. (NASA)

And here's a few links to some of my artwork, inspired by the cosmos.



SOLAR(FLOWERED) ECLIPSE

A PORTRAIT OF THE MOON

SUN(FLOWER)GLASSES

A VEGETABLE SOLAR SYSTEM

"On the said Tuesday, the Artist is away on location somewhere in Northern Europe (in a capital city park). Hoping to capture, post-worthy documentary evidence of a partial happenstance. Apparatus will include a digital camera, a home made solar viewer and a pair of solar shades. It's then onto an Internet Cafe, plugging into totality. Live Webcast China.
If only I could be there...well, there's always next time.



It does so, We do, and so does the Moon? But did you know what a SYZYGY is? I didn't. Thanks.
My home made solar viewer, built for the Transit of Venus 2004. Made from a cardboard box.

International Year of ASTRONOMY 2009

ASTRONOMICAL
MORE ASTRONOMICAL

The eclipse is coming...........010808
Watch this SPACE.

Sun(flower) eclipse.

It's all about the MOON

http://share-my-art.blogspot.com/2007/06/soalr-flowered-eclipse.html

TYPO LINK

synchronize

Crescent Moons

The crescent Moon in December 2007.

Watercolour Saturn by Paul.

You are time.

I can paint you secondly none
with hot breath and butterfly strokes.
You are being commissioned.

Your dusky colour a flutter

and you look like an eye.

Your thighs quicken in me.
Spin vinyl slick.
Press PLAY again!
Crowssswoop the crest of Devil Rock.
On windy hill a whole eon spent.
This is Saturday, the Planet.
Try to win, first over the line, raining through every time.

Solar shadows.

These images were captured using a 5mp camera. Spring 2007
Click HERE to view more images captured using a camera obscurer.
Click HERE to view my work based upon the moon.
Click HERE to view my work inspired by astronomical happenings.

The Moon and Venus in the Garden.

Chalk on patio and lantern and yellow rose at twilight.

How Mars appears to shift against the background of stars.

My interpretation of another diagram found in the text book I found in a second hand bookstore.
The collage is culled from Sketchbook #93.

Chapter 18.

Ancient measures of distance of the Moon.

My interpretation of a diagram found in a text book from a second hand bookstore.

The book has long since disappeared. The collage is culled from Sketchbook #93.

Pleiades in the Garden.

The 3rd example in a series of three. See Orion's Belt and Big Dipper.

Using glass jars and bowls to house a small flame, positioned together in a sequence. Tea Lights in the Garden representing stars and constellations. See The Ingenious Plastic Lamp to discover where the journey began and the inspiration was formed for these starry garden installations.

The Pleiades, a star cluster, is a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere.

Also known as the sailing ones, flock of doves or the seven sisters.

Orion's Belt in the Garden.

These images have been created by using Tea Lights to represent the positions of stars and constellations in the Garden. Orion's Belt, the three stars positioned in a line close together can be identified easily in the night sky. In the Northern Hemisphere, Orion is visible in the evening from November to April. Orion's sword can be seen clearly hanging from his belt.

Thanks to Jo for the inspiration, for the conversation we had, sat around several Ingenious Plastic Lamps, underneath the the stars.

Big Dipper in the Garden.

These images are created by placing Tea Lights in The Garden to represent the positions of stars and constellations. The Big Dipper is a group of the brightest stars of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. There are seven stars in the group and Polaris, the North Star can be located by following a line from the two pointer stars, on the inside of the bowl. The Big Dipper swings around the North Star like the hands of a clock.

A Vegetable Solar System with labels.

I've always had a thing for sunflowers, and an interest in astronomy and all things cosmological.
What with their name, the idea to use one in a scientific model, has been lurking around in the outer space of my brain, for sometime. Then it came to me, a vegetable solar system, with a bright yellow sunflower as the solar disc, with vegetables orbiting around it. I picked the sunflower this morning and procured the nine planets (as we knew them) from the kitchen or the garden.

A vegetable solar system, with labels added.

A Vegetable Solar System.

I've always had a thing for sunflowers, and an interest in astronomy and all things cosmological.

What with their name, the idea to use one in a scientific model, has been lurking around in the outer space of my brain, for sometime. Then it came to me, a vegetable solar system, with a bright yellow sunflower as the solar disc, with vegetables orbiting around it. I picked the sunflower this morning and procured the nine planets (as we knew them) from the kitchen or the garden.

Sun: Sunflower. (Garden.)

Mercury: Nasturtium seed. (Garden.)

Venus: A carrot end. (Kitchen.)

Earth: Half an apple. (Garden.)

Mars: A cherry tomato. (Garden.)

Jupiter: A red onion. (Kitchen.)

Saturn: A potato and string. (Kitchen.)

Uranus: A courgette end. (Kitchen.)

Neptune: A plum. (Garden.)

Pluto: A grain of desert rice. (Kitchen.)

Please note that the objects were selected in a restricted period of time from available resources, they are not represented in scale.

The nine planets as we knew them. From the time of it's discovery in 1930 and until 2006 Pluto was considered the ninth planet.

In Roman Mythology, Pluto (Greek: Hades) is god of the underworld.

Comparisons: Pluto. (Walt Disney.) The chemical element, Plutonium.

A bee landed on the sunflower, looking for some pollen.