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#mermay #mermay2020 #astronomy #telescope
This was a real tough drawing to color in. Here we see two merfolk, Meryl and Sander, crewing the aquatic laboratory of the Gullport Observatory.Meryl is checking the collimation of the fixed-eyepiece instrument before observing the Moon
why has covid-19 destroyed #Mermay? All the artists are still cooped up inside aren't they? I've seen zero mermay pics from this year.
Still gotta make my contribution to astronautical mermay culture this year. Here's my past artworks:
@tuggalugg The engines of the S&M. Beckett, Neil, and Samson. S&M had three canonical 0-4-0's, no one said they had to be box tanks like Neil! All are Neilson & Co 0-4-0s, so it still feels consistent. (Though I made a mistake; No. 1 Beckett wasn't designed until after the S&M closed!)
#TransDayOfVisibility
Trans Kerbmun Orbital Ship (TKOS) departs Mesbin en route to Kerbmun. It carries the Trans Kerbmun flag.
#KSP #WhirligigWorld
@nyrath This time a heatshield was at the front, a proper ablative one. The thing began stalling at first, but eventually control was regained and the thing coasted to a parachute landing. Last photo is a composite image--the first taken from the surface of Kerbmun!
@nyrath The engineers, upon discovering heating was a problem, found the most heat resistant structural part they could find and put that at the front of the dart.And it worked! Although there was a huge deorbit burn before entry (normally entry would be >2.5 km/s. Deorbit left <1.7km/s)
@ToughSf @utopieselective @AeroJettArt Remember that tidally locked planets *DO* rotate. Habitabl planets that are tidally locked are likely to be in such short period orbits, days or weeks long rather than months, that there'd be a lot more heat transport than what's going on in that drawing. https://t.co/2UV7HR0N69
Companion to the existing Gaymun flag for Graymun exploration missions in Whirligig World.