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Today the #spacetoberchallenge is “Star”. In 2017, @NASA SOFIA airborne observatory performed an observation of Neptune’s largest moon Triton occulting 13th magnitude star UCAC4 410-143659. This patch was the official insignia of the mission. SOFIA accomplished this at over 600 MPH and 40,000 feet.

A second post for #SpacetoberChallenge 's "telescope" topic. This is a commemorative patch for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that calls out some of its primary instruments. This telescope an incredible engineering feat that deserves 20 patches.

#spacetoberchallenge of the day is "Telescope" . I have a special place in my heart for #NASA 's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). I was able to do my first official NASA insignia for SOFIA. This is a design I really like but was not officially adopted for the event.

Today’s #SpacetoberChallenge is another generous topic: “Crew Capsule”. Before there were human crews, there were chimpanzees and monkeys. Their flights helped prove the way for human space flight. The patches commemorate Ham (aka Chop Chop Chang to his handlers) and Enos.

Today’s #spacetoberchallenge subject is “Mars/Mars missions”. This commemorative patch, released just this year, marks the milestone of Mariner 4, the first successful flyby of planet Mars. This happened in 1965.

Another "Historic Persons" post for today's #SpacetoberChallenge. I did some commissioned homage patches based on art by Alexei Leonov, famed Soviet cosmonaut and painter. Two stylized patches based on a painting he did of his first EVA. These have been worn on EVA a few times.

#spacetoberChallenge topic of the day is "Historic Persons". Nichelle Nichols, "Uhura" of Star Trek fame, broke barriers. As a NASA Ambassador, she recruited women and minority astronauts. On her 2nd science flight on SOFIA she carried these themed SOFIA patches with her. My favorite commission.

My employment medical benefits officially dried up today thanks to the shutdown, could have made it to EOY with coverage otherwise. The insurance marketplace is a joke. Unemployment is a joke. The job market is a wasteland. Pretty much cooked at this point.

#SpacetoberChallenge post of the day "Parachutes". I only have done artwork that depicts parachutes from a patch a number of years ago, the first Crew Dragon splashdown.

Today's #SpacetoberChallenge topic is "Spacecraft". I have a lot of spacecraft art. Lets start with a patch design that features three distinct spacecraft. This is the first of a series for each of the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicles.

Brilliant little passing shaft of light breaking up a decent convergence zone downpour near Seattle #wawx

"Eclipse" is the topic for today's #spacetoberchallenge. North America was the witness to two TSE's within a decade. In 2024 I released a patch to celebrate it. In 2017 I launched a high altitude balloon in Oregon to capture its shadow. I hung a little astronaut in front of the camera for fun.

I don't have any particular artwork that fits #spacetoberchallenge topic "Asteroid", but I do have a photo of the layer left by the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs. The white line is the layer with extra-terrestrial iridium called the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K-Pg). Location: Colorado.

I am a day late for #spacetoberchallenge 's theme of "Artemis II". This is the 2nd planned installment for my Artemis patch mosaic project. There are some liberties taken with scale and how the astronauts would be actually positioned but I wanted to express the awe of the lunar flyby. #nasa

Meanwhile in #Portland

Today's #spacetoberchallenge is "Propulsion". I stopped designing SpaceX-related patches earlier this year, but I would be remiss in not recognizing the engineering behind Starship Super Heavy and the Raptor engines. I did these patches in 2021 and 2023.

Today's #spacetoberchallenge subject is "Space Agency". This patch commemorates a rare convergence of three space agency probes on Mars in the same month in 2021: NASA, China National Space Administration and the UAE Space Agency. I hope such convergences are more commonplace in the future.

#spacetoberchallenge topic for today: "Constellation". Before there was TV, radio and even books, there was the night sky. Crux (the Southern Cross) is a particularly important one for navigation. Here I've used it #NASA and the SOFIA program's annual Southern deployment to New Zealand.

For today's #spacetoberchallenger, topic "Voyager", I don't have any particular artwork for these much-celebrated interplanetary, now interstellar, probes, but I will leave you with some of Carl Sagan's most poignant words, in his own voice. youtu.be/MnFMrNdj1yY?...

Today’s #spacetoberchallenge topic is “‘Moon”. A generous topic. These are some patches I released in 2025 that commemorate the #NASA Lunar Surveyor program which provided critical data for future Apollo missions. Retro 1965 styling applied.

Today's #spacetoberchallenge topic is "Space Weather". Last night, our Sun kicked off an Earth-directed M-class flare. In a few days that could mean #auroraborealis. I love chasing the Northern Lights! I took this photo ia few years ago in Eastern Washington state. Never stop looking up.

I’m neither here nor there on most hashtag challenges but this one speaks to me deeply as a space artist. Like for most things in my life I have severe impostor syndrome, so calling myself out as a “space artist” in public feels weird but liberating. #sciart #STEAM

For day 2 of #spacetoberchallenge, subject: Planets! This is my latest commemorative patch, a patch for #NASA and JPL’s Mariner 4, the first successful flyby of Mars

Late entry for day 1 of the #soacetoberchallenge, #launch. My first design that set me down the most satisfying creative outlet of designing other space and aerospace patches over 10 years ago. An Apollo 4 launch commemorative patch. I wanted to design patches for missions without official patches.

Oh, my. #rockhounding

They're a bunch of damn children. (This is hud dot gov) It's also displayed in a popup.

In the October 1953 issue of of Harper’s Bazaar, this sparkling Sophie Gimbel cocktail gown was described as the Dress of a Thousand Lights. It does resemble the clearest of night skies with every constellation glittering #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A past embroidery commission I forgot to share on here... an aerial view of an equestrian farm somewhere in America! This was such a lovely landscape is embroider: the horse fields and red farm houses are so pleasing :) such a soothing green landscape 💚

Iceland #theroad #blueskyartshow

Hitchin’ in Nevada #theroad #blueskyartshow

I love taking unflattering pictures of my cat

Actuellement deux comètes présentes dans notre système solaire semblent se tirer la bourre. Leur nom de code : C/2025 K1 ATLAS (à gauche) et C/2025 R2 SWAN (à droite). En réalité leurs trajectoires respectives sont très différentes. Reunion Island - 20 septembre 2025.

Kayenta sandstone featuring some desert varnish, Boss Hawg canyon, near Hite, UT #blueskyartshow #angles

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Spending a few days at Fort Flagler state park here in WA. Decent, if typical, Washington state beach-#rockhounding in the area. Now, I need to find a dang job so we can afford grit again. For now we will just bank up more rocks!

apparently, yesterday was National Hummingbird Day, and it reminded me of something I saved off the other place a few years ago - someone (I’ve lost who, sorry) made this KC-135 Hummingbird feeder! It got me thinking about a fighter-sized bird.. 1/3

Spent the weekend on the South Fork Sauk river disconnected from just about everything. The salmon are starting to run. #vanlife

Being unemployed right now is a fucking nightmare but I will say I’m glad that Dr Oz and RFJ jr are no longer my goddamned bosses.

Our Zoe watching rabbits from on high. #catsofbluesky #tortietude

Neat, an all-electric airplane is doing a photo flights over Elliot Bay and the Seattle skyline. A Beta Technologies SC300.

Dennis Goris (‪@dennisgoris.bsky.social‬) with a cartoon that's profound, sad, and tragically spot on.

I feel I'm more qualified for Rizz Drupal Developer..

Great, I purchased a $35 item from Kazakhstan, and now face a potential $200 tariff / tax to the USA in order to actually receive it. This is fine.

One of the few annual passes I subscribe to and it’s worth every dollar if not more. Happy birthday NPS. #saveourparks

Nevermind, I didn't want in that bad anyways.

what comes around, goes around.

I only made 50 of these patches for collectors a number of years ago and I only had two left, one for myself. Tonight the great-grand daughter of Ham’s handler at NASA reached out to see if I had any left for their family to display! Why I do happen have just one! I am glad I kept it. #nasa

I don’t have much to say these days so here’s Zoe living her best life. #catsofbluesky

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