Title: After The Telescope
Artist: leecetheartist (Alicia Smith)
Rating: G
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Content Notes: As my regular followers may know, I have recently been making use of a couple of Dwarf Smart Telescopes. There's nothing quite as educational if one is unlearned about space as pointing your scope at something that looks interesting and then finding out about what it is that you are actually looking at. In the past year or so I have learned about superbubbles, anti-tails and lots of different sorts of nebulae, and other starstuff.
See a comet with an anti-tail, see planetary nebulae and superbubbles, clusters and more!
This has inspired me to doodle a thumbnail of my cosmological journey, and I was three quarters of the way through it when the good folks at the Dreamwidth Drawesome community put up an "in spaaace" challenge. Well, I'm well equipped for it.
I enjoyed very much the Diamine (appropriately named) Cosmic Glow fountain pen ink - extremely high sheen in a good old Lamy Safari.
Click to embiggen:
Artist: leecetheartist (Alicia Smith)
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: N/A
Content Notes: As my regular followers may know, I have recently been making use of a couple of Dwarf Smart Telescopes. There's nothing quite as educational if one is unlearned about space as pointing your scope at something that looks interesting and then finding out about what it is that you are actually looking at. In the past year or so I have learned about superbubbles, anti-tails and lots of different sorts of nebulae, and other starstuff.
See a comet with an anti-tail, see planetary nebulae and superbubbles, clusters and more!
This has inspired me to doodle a thumbnail of my cosmological journey, and I was three quarters of the way through it when the good folks at the Dreamwidth Drawesome community put up an "in spaaace" challenge. Well, I'm well equipped for it.
I enjoyed very much the Diamine (appropriately named) Cosmic Glow fountain pen ink - extremely high sheen in a good old Lamy Safari.
Click to embiggen:

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Date: 2025-03-24 01:16 pm (UTC)Oh this is gorgeous!
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Date: 2025-03-26 03:18 am (UTC)5 years ago you would've needed 10's of thousands of dollars to do the same thing, and a trailer to carry the equipment.
Now with the Dwarf or other smart telescopes like the Seestar you'd need less than $1000 AUD.
They handle light pollution very well so you can get Nebula in the middle of, say, Tokyo.
https://leecetheartist.dreamwidth.org/tag/southernhemisphereastronomy for some photos, some with the Dwarves.
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Date: 2025-04-19 12:48 am (UTC)Beautiful colours! :)
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