moon lover

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/454611

From a 2011 trip to NYC and Philly. At a taxidermy filled bar in Manhatten (@bedlamnyc ). I visited twice, and heard “In the City” by The Jam both times I was there. Sketchbook 2011 #drawing #sketchbook #illustration #art #taxidermy #barsofnyc #thejam

A lower resolution version of this was recently posted as Marconi, but its clear from this scan that its by Julian Mandel.

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 Rêve d'orient - Charles Amable Lenoir 

A new geometric design every day

Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001 passing through Galaxy Cluster Abell 3627

#mayumiinoha #PIQ #NY #kuteasfuh

Santa Maria de la Vid Monastery, the library, La Vid y Barrios, Burgos, Castile and Leon, Spain. VIA.

Ferdinand Knab, Palast an einem Gebirgssee, 1876

The astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day. The International Space Station orbits about 354 kilometers (220 miles) above the Earth and travels at approximately 27,700 km/hr (17,211 mph), so it takes about 92 minutes to circle the Earth once. For this reason, every 45 minutes the astronauts on-board see a sunrise or a sunset, with a total of 15 – 16 of each every 24 hours. A space sunset is said to be a spectacular sight that shows in vivid detail the many layers of the Earth’s thin atmosphere. The first layer displays the dark part of the Earth experiencing night. Above that, in deep orange and yellow is the Earth’s troposphere, which contains almost all of the clouds in the sky. Then the pink to white region above the clouds which gradually turn to a light blue band, essentially the stratosphere, which is that part of the Earth’s atmosphere where airplanes fly. The layer above the stratosphere appears as a darker blue band that gradually fades away into the cold dark vacuum of outer space

Max Švabinský, White Camellia,1911

From NASA: ‘This is not a solar eclipse. Pictured below is a busy vista of moons and rings taken at Saturn. The large circular object in the center of the image is Titan, the largest moon of Saturn and one of the most intriguing objects in the entire Solar System. The dark spot in the center is the main solid part of the moon. The bright surrounding ring is atmospheric haze above Titan, gas that is scattering sunlight to a camera operating onboard the robotic Cassini spacecraft. Cutting horizontally across the image are the rings of Saturn, seen nearly edge on. At the lower right of Titan is Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn. Since the image was taken pointing nearly at the Sun, the surfaces of Titan and Enceladus appear in silhouette, and the rings of Saturn appear similar to a photographic negative. Now if you look really really closely at Enceladus, you can see a hint of icy jets shooting out toward the bottom of the image. It is these jets that inspired future proposals to land on Enceladus, burrow into the ice, and search for signs of extraterrestrial life.’