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Totality on the shores of Lake Champlain—indescribable, immense, a mind-bending gestalt!
2017 Solar Eclipse projected live at @mtwilsonobservatory 150’ Solar Tower, with sunspots visible. A record of daily visible sunspot activity has been hand drawn there since January 4, 1917. It’s the longest existing record of this data.
Getting ready for the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse by revisiting some past eclipses I’ve viewed. This photo I took shows binoculars being used as a pinhole camera to project a live view of the eclipse onto a sheet of paper for safe viewing. &
Studio files, or filing my dreams . . . #christinaondrus #ancientastronomy #astronomy #stellarobservation #artandscience #drawing #archaeoastronomy #archeoastronomy #stars #museumofcelestialart #cosmodesicdome #darksky
Observed solar halo with sun dogs (parhelia). … A sun halo is an atmospheric phenomena wherein a 22° luminous circle is visible around the sun. It is formed when hexagonal ice crystals are suspended in high atmosphere cirrostratus clouds
Full Worm Moon, 2023
White oak backlit by waxing gibbous moon
Welcome Summer Solstice! In the northern hemisphere we are at maximum planetary tilt to our nearest star, the sun, rendered here in Western Iberican sun symbols and Ancient Egyptian stars (Seba) (a little Neolithic Ireland stellar symbol peeking in t
I'm thrilled to have some images from my series "Of Shadows and Symbols: Gavrinis" included in "In Sight of Stone", an art and poetry pamphlet edited by Simon de Courcey. It's nearly sold out already (I snagged this sneak-peak pic
Visiting old friends✨✨ @mtwilsonobservatory @theknowledges
Ongoing notes, sketches, research…toward a stellar compendium. . . . #christinaondrus #ancientastronomy #astronomy #stellarobservation #artandscience #drawing #archaeoastronomy #archeoastronomy #stars
Stellar Compendium: Dowth, 2020 graphite and flashe on paper 14” x 11” — #stellarcompendium #languageofthestars #asterisms #stars #ancientart #contemporaryart #christinaondrus
Stellar Compendium: Auchentorlie, 2020 graphite and flashe on paper 14” x 11” — #stellarcompendium #languageofthestars #asterisms #stars #ancientart #contemporaryart #christinaondrus
What if there was a language used by all cultures around the world to understand our ancient origins and place in the universe? What I call the “language of the stars” may be just that. Nearly every known culture has ancient myths and dep
Welcome Vernal Equinox! I was fortunate to visit these Tataviam pictographs yesterday and imagine their importance to the people who created them beneath an ancient dark night sky. “The Tataviam (a Chumash name meaning “people of the su
Cold Moon 12.29.2020 8:09PM
Sun halo, lens flare and jet condensation trails over Los Angeles this morning. #sunhalo #sundog #condensationtrails #solarphenomena #lensflare #phenomena #losangeles #artandscience
I’ve always loved watching the play of shadow and light between tree leaves, but I never really thought about the sunlight circles in relation to the shape of the sun until I saw the crescents created during a solar eclipse. The explanation:
Seeing so many extraordinary Comet NEOWISE photos reminded me of these slides I saw while researching @mtwilsonobservatory archive @carnegieastro. These are slide images of Halley’s Comet taken in May 1910. The fascinating etymology of the wo