There was an alert last night that there was a good chance of aurora, sadly I was weary having had a busy shift at work that came after a poor nights sleep, so I ended up popping out with the camera and taking a quick snap. I did have to take a photo of M45 (Pleiades) and Jupiter popping over the Pennines, with our neighbours stone circle in the foreground π
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Leaving Bag End
I came up with this idea of painting scenes from J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings with the night sky as it would actually appear on that date and time, so I went through LOTRs and marked up all the references to when the night sky was visible, there’s quite a few references π Anyway, I decided for the first illustration to work out how the sky would have looked as the left Bag End, then I painted the scene – the sky took far too long, then,…
Read MoreStars over Castlerigg
I decided to paint a Castlerigg Stone Circle night scene, to make it a bit more interesting I decided to paint a fairly accurate night sky, so I worked out how the sky would have looked the from the day we got married and painted that π
Read MoreGetting together
I managed a quick couple of photographs of Venus, the waning crescent Moon, and Jupiter this morning. It was rather cold out there so I didn’t linger π
Read MoreOn the Moon…
Started off working on a Tolkien themed Moon illustration and ended up doing a pen & ink Lunar lander with a bit of text added on π
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