HAPPY BDAY JUICE

Kepler: SHE'S GIVING ME A LOOK

Arizonac doodle

Once every blue moon, Arizonac does the impossible and actually goes out and gets social interaction

he's also trilingual, yes. English, Spanish, and Navajo which he usually keeps between him and his brother.

moon sketch

sketch info:

Telescope: 6-inch Newtonian (reflector)

Eyepiece: 25mm eyepiece + moon filter

Time: 1:00 AM - 1:30 AM MST

Phase: Waxing Gibbous

walkin'

i am a perfectly normal spacecraft

i am a perfectly normal spacecraft

adding some facial features now

(i also made Dawn's bus color a little bit lighter since i had trouble with lighting because it was so dark and has no specular reflection)

HI HI !!!

going to maybee tidy up some things 'round this blog ! by that i mean i might reorganize sum pages and see if i could test out themes that i could add here, as well as consider going by a new blog title, just to change things up a little!

also D.A's been rather inactive for the past year-ish so it should be clear already that the blog is kinda my new main art place so ye !

THESE SCREENSHOTS I TOOK BACK WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO MODEL ORION ARE THE BEST THINGS TO ME RIGHT NOW

waga baga bobo

My trip to California !

December 19th, 2023 - started writing at 2:17 AM

The trip started at 5 AM on Friday, that was when I left on my eons-long road trip to California.

I wasn't really feeling that tired, I actually didn't get any sleep (had an awful headache until I had some tea mere minutes before I was supposed to wake up and get ready)

We packed some blankies if any of us needed to lay down, but I knew I might've not been able to sleep so just in case I packed up some study guides and an encyclopedia to read in the car. For the most part I just stared at the window listening to music because we drive through a very dark desert so I got to watch Orion set as Ursa Major was above me while Libra was rising to my east.

When the sun was rising I was definitely eager to see some major star in Scorpius appear as a very faint dot but I guess not lol (the sun should be in ophiuchus right now, not too far from antares, but im impatient to see my favorite constellation)

We went on the route we'd usually take when we go to Big Bear, mainly because less traffic, so we went through San Bernardino I think? Halfway I started getting really tired and giddy to the point where I was laughing at trees for no reason LOL (and me imagining TSSOA California being a rebellious teenager)

The main point of the trip was to visit my relatives at a cemetery near Los Angeles. And it was nice having breaky with them over at a Denny's. I had some chicken tendies and. fries with ketchupie and. ranchie idk WHAT IM SAYING LOL and I felt like my tired sleepy side was definitely catching up to me (I'm not one to be a part of conversations 😭 im kinda shy tbh)

After that we drove about 30-40 mins to the California Science Center, one of my favorite places to be haha because THEY GOT SOME SPACECRAFT MODELS!!! and can't forget Endeavour herself :D

^^ some of my favorite models that they have. when i went here for the first time i remember i was so happy to see hubble and juno

They also had this area where you could use NASA's Eyes on Earth software and it was really cool because they projected the satellites and earth onto a sphere so it was like you could actually view it

ICESat-2 :D (seeing it made me feel so giddy)

they had so many cool goobers there, even if one of them's a giant space boat <3 (they had a timeline of space shuttle missions and seeing CGRO made me feel happy, i have the mission patch btw lol)

NOW IT'S OFF TO THE GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY !!!

and this time we got to park much closer to the observatory, and we didnt walk eons and eons down the road LOL.

It was a lot more crowded this time but that was probably because it was later and so people might have come to use the telescope at the top of the building.

I see what they did there. Nice one. (That's the California Nebula on the left lol. Yes, it's a real name and it's in Perseus)

The view from when we left was really pretty,,I love going to these kinds of places :sob: but now im back in good ol' desert Arizona (came back early on saturday) but I LOVE GOI

i think im runnin out of space here so ill continue into some other stuff in another post

December 19th, 2023 - finished writing/posted at 3:18 AM