Impressionists of exo solar planets part 2

 more impressionist  exo solar planets  using a combination of  chunky world builder and  freeware photo  manipulation  app   tools   but aiming more for the  picture book

note that  many movie    alien planets are filmed in climate oriented parts of Earth  and thus  Morocco,  New Zealand and Iceland  feature prominently as the backdrop of fantasy worlds   et astra

this could be the  need for desert  forest or  rocky worlds or that  such locations  offer only 20% of the production costs of  the USA and western Europe

 

fantasy worlds which  inevitably  find themselves in the twitter sphere as  the personal property of   gangs  of  controlled trolls " who not only have the  G,O,T.  box sets  but   I  read the books years before- and  I have read all of  Robin Hobb's  novels  too!!" 

 

you know the thing  -

 Game of Thrones  season eight Iceland locations provided an intense background  to the episode  featuring  the  natural cataclysm  that overwhelmed _____ (spoiler)  did not expect the  pitiless  outcome  of the battle with the  Army  of  the undead which reintroduced deceased characters  from season one  fighting on the side of the twin usurpers (spoiler)  and  that every male from the house of Baratheon  and a couple from the house of Lannister all had the chance however briefly  to occupy the Iron throne (spoiler)  and that after the  feature length climatic battle  it was  good  to see the fandom  wished for ending  of the triumphant  dragon scarred true King  Jon Snow marrying  Daenys Targaryen and ruling as equal rulers (spoiler)

 

but then again i was once trolled and  flamed  for a Amazon  review where I dared reveal  that the novel  in  question was "The second book in a trilogy!!!!!!!!! and that  really spoilt the whole thing  for them !!!!!!!!"

 

a lot of tweeters write they are GUTTED  by the  news that  Barry Manilow got married  or GUTTED that "Space Above and Beyond" was axed  in 1995  or GUTTED  that one of the CGI generated  crew of Thunderbirds are Go  is quitting Tracey Island   to enter politics

well as I can tell you having had major life threatening emergency  abdominal surgery   I was the only  one who was  actually GUTTED-  for everyone else it is just a figure of speech

 

 

 my visions of other worlds  a selection  of   exo solar planets  

 

 

Tau Ceti    11.9  light years  away  star G8

there is a theory that Tau Ceti has no  planetary system but  three gigantic  asteroid belts  thus here  the night sky is  a   continuous  super Leonid shower of   sun grazing comets  and meteorites from asteroid collisions    an abstract  impression

 

 

 

 

40  Eridani  15.9 light years triple star  a painting  inspired by Buddhist state of mindfulness    a focus for    praying and meditating  on a sacred  mountain

 

  

 

 

 

61 cygni  11,2 light years  away  double star  K7  K5 originally intended to show high tech   it became  a version  of a  Dutch old master  rainy  landscape of the 17th century

  note the 61 cygni double stars barely noticeable in the far right   as a  storm approaches  overwhelming the high tech

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Captain Nelson Pirate

 

 

 

 

Captain Nelson  is  one of the pirates  who did not seem to make it into popular culture  but belongs   whole heartily   to the  era of  the  General  history or Charles Ellms  Pirates own  book

 

Nelson    with   a fearsome reputation on the eastern seaboard   but no recorded  first  name  is  mentioned in the briefest  of  biographies as  either  no relation or a  distant relation of the  hero of  Trafalgar (with whom he was   perhaps contemporary  ) and not at all in any modern  Pirate encyclopaedia

 

Nelson  you can call him    "Mad Jack Nelson"  or "Dangerous  Nelson"  was   the spoilt son   of a rich father   who bought him a farm on  Prince Edward Island    where young "Dangerous " Nelson  married  and grew potatoes  and fruit  for market  which he  took to market in his small ship.

One day Nelson was disgraced on Prince Edward  Island  and banished to America  where  the new cut throat  ex fruit sailor  Captain Nelson   remodelled  his Potato  ship as a 10 gun " little New York battleship"   and  began a  career of  undated and unrecorded  infamous  piracy. 

 

A destroyer of  English and Ditch shipping  whose rich cargoes  (fruit and potatoes?) he sold on  in New York   in a three year reign  of unhistorical terror    Nelson and his partner Morrison  became "the richest of  rich men" 

Sailing back to Prince Edward island  "where he was neither arrested or  hanged "  to collect his wife and family  Nelson's battleship was lost in the fog " within sight of Montauk  with the gold of sixteen  prizes   on board   and although  Morrison and crew were drowned

Nelson landed safely  in New York "where he was neither arrested or  hanged "   living  richly  respected  and peacefully  with  his wife and family   to a great age 

like many other  nameless captains  out of  Irving's Golden dreams   with  the starving beggar  Henry Every   looking in

 

The  wreck of Nelsons Golden Montauk belongs more to off shore of Coney island   and the whole nelson story is a passable  but un archived tale  of the glorious rolling  rollicking  Pirate stereotype

Impressionists of exo solar planets

 

 

 

There are a number of excellent alien world builder  software programs such as arc world builder and Celestia   with libraries of world  parts  and  suns  from A to  M  and i have used  many but on the whole  they are Avatar clone apps or simply  build a fractal  earth and oceans  and you just add  two suns for a desert  world build a  wookie  crashing Pandora forest planet   or make it snow  for the  hothy  ice planets -  good as they are  the arc builder software  is one  owes more to Bonestell  gaseous    eruptions  of the 1950s  than  to Paul's pulp  life on other planet  illustrations  of the 1920s

 

I decided to make more impressionist  exo solar planets  using a combination of  chunky world builder and  freeware photo  manipulation  app   tools

 

 my visions of other worlds  a selection  of   extra solar planets seen at sunrise

 

 

 

Delta Pavonis  18.6 light years  star G6  the start of the early morning shift

 

 

 

 

 

Epsilon  Eridani  10.7 light years  star K2 an ocean   with divers

 

 

Epsilon Indi   11,2 light years  star  K6  view of a  desert  storm on planet  with  45 degree tilt to star

 

 

 

I  am making a slow recovery with  my abdominal surgical scar now only 20cm wide

 

 my latest poem "Rockette"  is on the theme of  woman in space  as seen in  1930s -1950s sci- fi  pulp covers  being the reality for the space age

   still fragmentary   with emphasis on  the   innuendo  of an all male crew on a long mission

 and that  in the 1950s " women too served in those days  as   deputy  assistant  unaccredited white scientist or  part qualified  probationary junior space pilot"