Step into the spotlight for too long and you might forget what the sun feels like.
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Hey I'm Ken, sketch artist, art, civil rights, equality, astrophotography, nature & science enthusiast live blogging his interests. New Yorker from uptown Manhattan, Quisqueya/ Dominican native.
From Space: New York City at Night
One of the Expedition 35 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International Space Station exposed this 400 millimeter night image of the greater New York City metropolitan area on March 23, 2013.
For orientation purposes, note that Manhattan runs horizontal through the frame from left to the midpoint. Central Park is just a little to the left of frame center.
Truth Behind the Quote
Since I knew at some point people would remove the commentary (you know cause screw real sources!) from the image where I added it I decided to give it its own post here on my page so people can refer to it whenever they need to. I know somewhere down the line there’s going to be some shmuck that will end up removing the commentary on this post as well, so I would love it if followers who are aware of this to keep the torch going and at the very least kindly inform those who misquote this wonderful piece of literature of who the credit actually belongs to.
I cringe every time I see this quote along with Galileo’s name or picture accompanied by it with a gajillion notes.
As much as I love Galileo and the work he did put out, these are not his words. This line is an excerpt from “The Old Astronomer”, or “The Old Astronomer to His Pupil” written solely by poet Sarah Williams (1837–1868).
I love poems as much as the next person, even more so when it expresses the night and stars so creatively, but there’s already enough wrongfully cited publishing done by women attributed to the men of history.. Let’s at the very least give her credit for what she did and quit dedicating artwork, doodles, t-shirts, paintings towards the wrong person.
New York at Night
Credit: NASA, STS-59 Crew
Night of Stars and Lights
In this long exposure image from top of La Palma in Canary Islands, lights from nearby villages and small towns are dramatically scattered due to the dust from Sahara. As noted by the photographer “The bright lights are from the small town of Barlovento at sea level.
The dust from the desert was quite severe at that time and its effect was to prevent the normal temperature drop during the night so that the usual cloud layer closer to sea level did not form, allowing street lights at sea level to be reflected by the airborne dust. On the south side if the island, the mainly fluorescent street lights of Tazacorte and Los Llanos to the south provided the color contrast in this image.
Copyright: David Malin
Starry Night at Smith Rock State Park (by David Gn Photography)
NYCC 2011 Pre-Show Commission - Steampunk Batgirl
Blue Hour
Copyright: David Kaplan
Milky Way over La Palma
Copyright: Daniel López
Forest Fire and Milky Way
Copyright: Phil Jones
Zodiacal Light above Himalayan Hills
Site: Uttarakhand - India
Copyright: Babak A. Tafreshi
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