#SpacetoberChallenge Day 32 Scale
I made this day up. I posted images of my Planetary Blocks planetary orbits a few days back, but here is also a video that explains the scale/size side.
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Another successful year of the #SpacetoberChallenge is now complete. Thank you so much to everyone who participated, whether it was for one day or for all of the days. You all are what makes this space art filled month so much fun. 🤩🧡
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Illustration of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket at the center, over a stack of evenly spaced pink rectangles, indicating progress. Surrounding the stack of rectangles and the rocket on either side are the words “Space Launch System” right side up on the left side and upside down on the right side, both in bright green. A pattern of three pink and orange rectangles caps off both the top and bottom of the design. The background of the entire thing, behind all the various elements, is black.
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future
In the not-so-distant future, the second launch of the SLS rocket & the return of humans to lunar orbit for the first time since the end of the Apollo program. Artemis II.
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29 Orbital
I never posted this cause visually it’s not very exciting. But I always like this bit of our planetary block poster that taught about gravity assists and orbits.
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A scan of the full page of drawings where the blackness of space is more evenly coloured.
#SpacetoberChallenge Epilogue
Here's a proper scan (instead of pics under harsh LEDs) with a wee tweak to balance space's black levels from my uneven brushes/markers.
Had a blast, learned a few new things, and found it strangely relaxing sometimes.
Thanks @morgandenman.bsky.social for the fun!
A full page view of my drawings to date, with the Phoenix filling the last gap near the middle of the page The drawing has a hand-lettered title near the bottom “Spacetober Challenge 2025” and my signed initials
A close-up of the Phoenix
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future
Star Trek’s “Phoenix” was Earth’s first crewed warp-capable ship.
A future with an FTL ship launched on the back of an obsolete ICBM leading to an egalitarian society without hunger, exploitation, or material needs would be pretty nice. #Spacetober
A classic "Vitruvian" man pose by an astronaut in an Orion crew survival suit displayed over a trarant of Earth, the Moon and Mars.
Wrapping up #SpacetoberChallenge is the topic "Future". I'll probably make this a patch at some point, but for now just the artwork. Boots on Mars in my lifetime? Perhaps. Here's to hoping. Thank you @morgandenman.bsky.social for putting this monthly challenge together.
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future
The final day of the month. I actually don’t have much on this except for two details from my Milestones in Space Glasses: #HumansOnMars #LunarGateway
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Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, and 30: Galaxy are crossed out. 31: Future
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 31: Future
The final day of the month and the final prompt of this year’s challenge! That really went by fast.
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Illustration. At the center is an illustration of a spiral Galaxy in shades of blue and green. Surrounding that are the words “spiraling like a galaxy” in a bold font, white with a bright green outline.
Spiraling like a galaxy 🌀
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30: Galaxy
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A galactic visitor 🐙✨ Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🎨
#ArtYear #Art #Artist #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #Astronomy #MarineLife #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
A full page view of my drawings to date, with a galaxy drawn hear the center right
A close-up of the galaxy drawing
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30: Galaxy
NGC 4565 (also Caldwell 38 or "The Needle" galaxy) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away. #Spacetober
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30 Galaxy
The main #DrakeEquation design created for @setiinstitute.bsky.social
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Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, and 29: Orbit are crossed out. 30: Galaxy, 31: Future
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30: Galaxy
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 30 Galaxy
#DrakeEquation for @setiinstitute.bsky.social
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Today's #spacetoberchallenge topic is "orbit". These patches recognize the critical role the Soyuz Progress resupply spacecraft serve for crews on the ISS, particularly for fresh oxygen, water and fresh produce. They depict their payload in stylized orbits. ("Fresh Products, On Orbit")
Illustration with a Falcon 9 topped with a Dragon capsule at the center. On both the right and left sides are two astronauts, one on top of the other, facing inward toward the rocket. The entire illustration is in shades of pink and red with black outlines.
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut
Getting caught up after being down with a migraine yesterday.
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29 Orbital
I posted images of my Planetary Blocks planetary orbits, but here is also a video that explains that side.
#sciart #spaceart #artchallenge #planets
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A full page view of my drawings to date with a polar orbit example drawn near the center
A close-up of my polar orbit example drawing
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29: Orbit
Polar orbits are those that are near-perpendicular to a body’s rotation and are the best method for scanning and mapping that body’s surface. #Spacetober
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Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, 27: Habitat, and 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut are crossed out. 29: Orbit, 30: Galaxy, 31: Future
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29: Orbit
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 29 Orbital
The orbital side of Planetary Blocks squeezes the whole Solar System into just 2 inches. Three different scales keep the inner planets, outer planets, and Kuiper Belt in check—tied together by an AU ruler running along the bottom.
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A full page view of my drawings to date, with the astronaut in the upper left of center.
A close-up of the astronaut
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut
NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, the first person to use the Manned Maneuvering Unit in an untethered free flight in space, traveled more than 91 meters (300 feet) away from the Space Shuttle Challenger during the historic spacewalk. #Spacetober
#SpacetoberChallenge ! There are astronauts, there are cosmonauts and there are even astro-cosmonauts: those who have flown Soyuz and Shuttle/Crew Dragon. Don Pettit is one of those. Here's a patch he received during his last flight. The background is inspired by his amazing photography from orbit.
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Graphic showing the Spacetober challenge prompt list for 2025. The background is an orange gradient with a black box on top, with the number of each day and the corresponding prompt for each in white text on top. 1: Launch, 2: Planet(s), 3: Space Weather, 4: Moon, 5: Voyager, 6: Constellation, 7: Space Agency, 8: Propulsion, 9: Nebula, 10: Artemis II, 11: Asteroid, 12: Eclipse, 13: Near or Deep Space Network, 14: Spacecraft, 15: Black Hole, 16: Parachute, 17: Historic Person(s), 18: Mars/Mars Mission, 19: Crew Capsule, 20: Telescope, 21: Star, 22: Lunar Landing, 23: Space Station, 24: Jet/Plane, 25: Historic Mission(s), 26: Earth, and 27: Habitat are crossed out. 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut, 29: Orbit, 30: Galaxy, 31: Future
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut/Cosmonaut
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut
This one’s a mix of old and new.
I originally designed the poster back in 2016, but just recently gave it a full refresh to adapt it into an enamel pin—which should be arriving any day now.
#sciart #spaceart #Vostok #yurigagarin
#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut
Another Illustration for the now defunct Icarus Interstellar. This was created shortly after they had discovered planets around Proxima Centauri, with one in the habitable zone.
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#SpacetoberChallenge Day 28: Astronaut
Illustration for the now defunct Icarus Interstellar.
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#SpacetoberChallenge topic today: "Habitat". We go to Utah in our van a lot and our favorite locale, hands down, is usually eyeshot of the Mars Desert Research Station. The terrain is so Mars-like, they do analog long-duration experiments and stays here with EVAs, rovers, etc.
