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29th April 2020 Pluto taking shape.

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Just saw starlink satellite train (Elon Musk spaceX) passing from WNW – ESE over our house.  10 – 12 satellites spotted. quite far apart and all on similar trajectories.  Never seen anything like it before.  They travel quite fast.

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I can’t believe that it’s 76 days since I last made a diary entry!  I’ve been too busy to paint as we’ve had the decorators in which involved moving a lot of stuff around.

I’ve just found an article in ‘New Scientist’ that covers my main are of interest regarding my painting.  New Scientist 15th February 2020, cover story, Why the Laws of the Universe explain everything except you.  Finding our place in the universe. p34 Question is how can we fit human agency into the laws of nature?

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Chagall’s stained glass windows in All Saint’s Church Tudeley, Kent.  Finding Chagall’s work, in situ in this lovely little church and so close to home was a wonderful surprise.

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That’s it, finished!

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Starting to paint an image of one of my favourite astronomical objects, The Sombrero Galaxy. Approximately 31,100,000 million light years away, the light in this photograph left the Sombrero Galaxy at the beginning of the Oligocene.

Image of The Sombrero Galaxy taken on a visit to La Palma.

New painting of The Sombrero Galaxy using a NASA, Spitzer infrared photograph as reference. Need to work out how to preserve luminosity at the centre.

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Just reading about James Turell’s, Roden Crater, whilst waiting for totality of the lunar eclipse. It just sounds magical, I’d love to visit this one day.

We were lucky with the lunar eclipse. Cloud was forecast but the sky remained clear throughout the totality. At about 5.52am cloud and fog rolled in so we just manage to see the moon starting to come out of shadow at 5.43am.

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26th August 2018 Jupiter’s pole photographed in infrared = source photograph for this painting.