Drawesome Drawing Challenge - 69 in spaaace

[leecetheartist]

Title: After The Telescope
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.

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Comments

[mific]

Ooh, gorgeous colour, texture and details!

[leecetheartist]

Thanks! It's a super lovely ink!

[goss]

Oooh, it has such a great sense of energy and movement - I love it! :)

[leecetheartist]

Thanks - no keeping this universe down!

[gingicat]

very cool!

[leecetheartist]

Thank you!

[marycrawford]

I love the energy of this, and the little face in the moon <3. The ink is really working for you, I have a lot of Diamine but not that one...

[leecetheartist]

Thank you. I have to admit I never saw the face until you said! Pareidolia out in force!

[minoanmiss]

Oh this is gorgeous!

[leecetheartist]

Thank you, it was very satisfying to get down.

[amberdreams]

A perfect challenge for you! Love the picture and how exciting to be making your own space explorations.

[leecetheartist]

I feel like I'm a discoverer!

[sage]

THat's gorgeous!

[leecetheartist]

Thank you!

[adafrog]

Pretty.

[leecetheartist]

It's all in the ink :-)

[mekare]

This is gorgeous! And thanks for the note about the dwarf telescopes, that sounds like something really useful!

[leecetheartist]

I have a Dwarf 2 and a Dwarf 3 - they're what's called Smart Telescopes and you don't look through them. They track a bit of sky, and build up multiple exposures to capture more light.

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.

[leecetheartist]

They're about the size of a medium handbag, so very portable.

[lagertha_the_warrior]

This is wonderful, I love it

[seleneheart]

That looks so cool - great use of inks and the things on your mind!

[mific]

I added your tags - sorry, I hadn't noticed we hadn't given you an artist tag before now.

[leecetheartist]

Ooh thank you I feel super official now!

[sexycazzy]

Beautiful colours! :)

[apachefirecat]

Very pretty!

[leecetheartist]

Thank you!