celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? a harbor starbor seal

Alpine

From a series of silhouette watercolors done in 2018. (Available as a postcard here.)

Celestial Window // Terraza Stained Glass

Sailing back home on the stream of stars...

Find your flow.

2023 December 10

Big Dipper over Pyramid Mountain Image Credit & Copyright: Steve Cullen

Explanation: When did you first learn to identify this group of stars? Although they are familiar to many people around the world, different cultures have associated this asterism with different icons and folklore. Known in the USA as the Big Dipper, the stars are part of a constellation designated by the International Astronomical Union in 1922 as the Great Bear (Ursa Major). The recognized star names of these stars are (left to right) Alkaid, Mizar/Alcor, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak, and Dubhe. Of course, stars in any given constellation are unlikely to be physically related. But surprisingly, most of the Big Dipper stars do seem to be headed in the same direction as they plough through space, a property they share with other stars spread out over an even larger area across the sky. Their measured common motion suggests that they all belong to a loose, nearby star cluster, thought to be on average only about 75 light-years away and up to 30 light-years across. The cluster is more properly known as the Ursa Major Moving Group. The featured image captured the iconic stars recently above Pyramid Mountain in Alberta, Canada.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231210.html

Yosemite,  California by Garrett Patz

Under the Stars - Lisa Benson

New Zealand , b. 1966 -

Linocut print ,  27 x 35 cm. Ed. 40 /50

Starry Night

Fire cat and Milky Way cat from this and last month! c: Wallpaper size can be found HERE!

Elin Manon aka Elin Manon Cooper (Welsh, b. South Wales, based Falmouth, Cornwall, England) - Untitled, Mixed Media

| “ Iland milkyway ” | by Raphael Zeller

ID: art of a blue, purple and yellow shooting star, falling into the ocean. foamy waves frame the star. the sky turns from blue to a dusty purple and pink. end ID

sea star

5dockk aka 5dock_dd (South Korean, based South Korea) - 윤슬2 (Yunseul 2), 2022, Digital Art

Good news! It gets worse!

I think it's the galactic orbit thing that really did me in