Moon image credit:
NASA/JPL
staring at our Sun (ongoing series).
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) (a “sun pointing semi-autonomous spacecraft” with an “inclined geosynchronous orbit”) makes photos of our Sun (across seven different filters) ~every 15 minutes of every day (24/7 365) as part of their Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) experiment. SDO records images beyond our visible spectrum (showing temperature ranges at the brightest spots between 60,000-20,000,000 degrees Kelvin).
using NASA’s searchable database, i am making a series of cascading accordions animating actions of our Sun as well as
lunar transits and transits of Venus and Mercury. i think of these as meditative objects (allowing users to hold the Sun in their hands and animate it).
below are videos showing me playing these different works (for more information on a particular work, click title above video)
staring at our Sun (embossed moon)
collab with nif hodgson
i also published a pocket edition (of 1069) of staring at our Sun. comprised of NASA’s photos of our Sun over 36 sequential days (generally one per day) plus a lunar transit (8 images), one full rotation of our Sun is shown across 7 NASA AIA filters in NASA colorspace.
loopy lunar transit & loopy lunar transit four (four filters; inverted)
staring at our Sun (transit of Venus flyby) & staring at our Sun (transit of Venus flyby) (NASA VENUS subedition) (cascading accordions);
staring at our Sun (twister) cascading accordion
collected by UTSA
collected by Cal Poly SLO