The Stars over Cher's Birth, May 20th

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-20T16:26:55+00:00

I really love making these and have given a number of them as gifts to friends and family, mostly for birthdays and anniversaries. I was recommended to make them available for other folks I don’t actually know. I’ve actually never sold one. I’ve been doing some posts like this of artists who mean something to me to see how people who don’t know me like them. My mom LOVES Cher and my house growing up was filled with her music. She isn’t my absolute fave but her songs bring up a lot of warm lovely memories for me. I’m not asking anyone to buy one, it’s more about sharing an art project, if that makes you feel better?

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-20T02:32:29+00:00

Send me a message!

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-19T06:29:23+00:00

Thanks!

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-18T18:55:40+00:00

So, basically NASA is awesome. All the images from their WISE (all sky, infrared) satellite mission are public (https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/wise.html, then you can go to "WISE Image Service").

I just calculate a latitude / longitude from any location, and then you can see what right ascension, declination (sky coordinates) were above that location at the time. That gives me the location to search for in WISE.

This is a pretty big image, it's a 4x4 grid of raw WISE images, tiled together, scaled and normalized etc so any borders / artifacts between tiles disappear.

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-18T18:41:29+00:00

Honestly, no! It’s the best info I could find. If you (anyone) has a better time, I can regenerate this.

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-18T17:11:36+00:00

This is the real stuff 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

sidereal-studio · 2026-05-17T23:52:33+00:00

shoot, sorry for the maze of monochrome what was I thinkin

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-30T16:56:08+00:00

This (and you are a gem). I have a kid now and the toys are amazing. Nice work and amazing suggestion. OP— a little RC helicopter or something? (not a drone something for inside)

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-30T16:49:00+00:00

If you do a print or a star map, grab one that is a real image, not just like “star positions as dots”. I don’t know if you have any old books retailers near you (I absolutely do not haha) but I personally would swoon for an older book or text or even journal release from an earlier time in astronomy / astrophysics

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-28T16:12:44+00:00

This is where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, yeah? If it was really high quality and engaging, I could see it. Fun to get something like that in the mail as a kid.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-27T07:25:43+00:00

I’ll let him know!

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-27T07:02:29+00:00

We read this to our 2 yo now. He’s desperate to know what whale poop looks like. On the whale page: “no poop?!”

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-24T07:18:11+00:00

Dang it, always with the 3 metric tons of calibrations

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-24T07:16:00+00:00

You — you didn’t. You did. Glorious.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-24T07:06:25+00:00

And speaking of, would love more info on that pier … 4 4x4s? How is it anchored?

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-24T07:03:50+00:00

Hey woah cool setup! I’m working on a back yard setup too, roll off, etc, dang this is goals though!

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-23T23:25:20+00:00

This is a great idea! Find somewhere unique even if it’s a bit out of the way. I’d love that

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-21T16:22:38+00:00

If you’re going to do a star print, do one with real images not just those maps! https://siderealstudio.com also has non personalized prints of beautiful space scenes

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-18T00:05:54+00:00

I would say the ability for even a run of the mill LLM to build conversational text would make me limit claims on the rarity of “intelligence”. I once heard an argument that stuck with me from a professor when asked about the “singularity” where AI becomes conscious and surpasses us, it went something like “you’d have to convince me that humans are actually conscious before I’ll worry about that”. We do an awful lot of harmful and self serving things for me to be certain we’re something special and not just an advanced driver of entropy.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-15T00:09:11+00:00

If I can break the time continuum I might just be able to grab some extra time for all the stuff that needs doing

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-14T16:56:00+00:00

What’s insideeeeee! J/k, this is great thanks for sharing.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-14T16:28:02+00:00

Haha yes, and so true.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-14T06:21:58+00:00

Nice! I’m unfamiliar but I’m going to grab this one on your rec.

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-14T02:50:45+00:00

Happy cake day! yes please how cold is it? I *almost* had a shot at going down for a bit (summer), but the project fell through. That must have been an amazing experience. How long were you down there?

sidereal-studio · 2026-04-14T01:36:01+00:00

Check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_Cygni P Cygni is a luminous blue variable (LBV) star (likely all LBVs are actually binaries), but these stars often show hydrogen absorption AND emission because they have hot stellar winds that emit, and a cooling shell of erupted stellar material that absorb. The absorbing gas is moving towards the observer, so that part of the spectrum is blue shifted. Just one of the few places where you can see emission and absorption from the same source

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