The first lot of illustrations are now up on Astronomical Art. In the Extrasolar Art gallery we have samples from two series  of illustrations currently in production. Brown Dwarf & Family plus Into the Fiery Night are from a series of illustrations exploring a hypothetical brown dwarf and it’s moons. The series will consist of three final pieces.

The other series featured under Extrasolar Art features a fantasy group of terrestrial moons orbiting a gas giant.  A barren moon, an ocean moon, a tropical moon and a desert moon each show their view from the surface of their siblings and parent planet.

There is also one lone image from no perticular series. Planet with Rocky Ring was a sketch study to try out some techniques for creating a dense rocky ring system.

In the Solar System Art gallery we have the first few illustrations from my Saturn Series. So far we have Mimas, Enceladus and Titan featured but I’m working on two to three more further illustions for this series featuring Iapetus, Tethys and probably Saturn’s ring system.

As of September 2007 there have now been discovered over 250 extrasolar planets (or exoplanets), that is - planets outside our our solar system, either freely moving through space or orbiting another stella object. Despite an extensive and expanding catalogue of these worlds and data such as mass and distance from parent star, we still have yet to optically view these planets in anything but the most crudest resolution.

Visualizing these planets therefore comes down to the minimal scientific data gathered and a lot of imagination. I hope to use this to illustrate some of these new worlds discovered and the hypothetical ones that might just be out there.

Astronomical Art - The celestial illustrations of Christian Thrower will finally bring some of my work online and available for all those interested to see. illustrations will cover planets, moons and other bodies within our Solar System as well as some more distant, hypothetical views of extrasolar planets and other worlds beyond the reach of our prying telescopes.

Content will start appearing very soon.

CT