Descriptions and Source Materials — Which Way Is Up?
Felicity Spear Artist
Deep Field (5 panel wall/floor installation - 3.5m by 5m)
- A fine spectral line, referencing the electromagnetic spectrum
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Star Trails — Anglo Australian Observatory
Photography by David Malin
(See David Malin Images: ‘Moonset In The Warrumbungles’
www.ast.cm.ac.ok/AAO/images.html | www.davidmalin.com) -
Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) 2003-03-27 — NASA Planetary Journal
photojournal.jpl.nasa,gov/gallery/universe -
The SDSS 3D Universe Map
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Team, NASA,NSF,DOE — Astronomy Picture of the Day
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031028.html - The vertical strips of distorted or magnified information and lines with cross bars reference a diagram of red shifts in the spectra of quasars from The Atlas of the Universe by Patrick Moore 1981, p. 213
Out There (A vertical panel 1m by 2m)
This image contains a slow release photograph of star trails around the south pole, overlaid with etched gores and vertical strips of distorted or magnified information, and a fine spectral line.
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Star trail Images
(See David Malin and AAO Images: www.davidmalin.com) - Copper etching plate of globe gores sourced from the National Maritme Museum at Greenwich
South-Crux (A vertical panel 1m by 2m)
This image contains a row of gores, star trails, x-ray globe sections, Crux map section, equation of time diagram and red lines at intervals.
- Globe gores
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Star Trails
(See David Malin and AAO Images: www.davidmalin.com) - X-ray images of globes from the Paper Conservation Dept. at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, U.K. photographed at my request while I was there for a week doing research in October 2004, and made available to me on disc
- Diagram of the equation of time described as an analemma, the path of the sun over a one year period
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Section of map by Corsali titled Ovalle Historia — Reyno de Chile 1646 RB2422 from the Crux Collection in the Rare Maps Collection of the State Library of New South Wales
image.sl.nsw.gov.au
Bipolar 1,2,3 and 4 (Panels 1m by 2m)
Bipolar 1 (with map overlay, stretched x-ray globes and star trails)
Bipolar 2 (large ellipse and part ellipse of x-ray globe over star trails and two half images of Saturn’s rings.)
Bipolar 3 (large ellipse of 2 x-ray globes over enlarged section of same)
Bipolar 4 (a variation on the above)
- The ellipse shape refers to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on an Aitoff projection similar to Mercator. In fact, the polar projection on these stretched globes is an azimuthal (normal planar) projection.
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Star Trails: The North and South Celestial Poles
(See David Malin and AAO Images: www.davidmalin.com) -
Section of map from complete image by Verhaer, novus typus orbis 1614
From the Crux Collection, rare maps from the State Library of New South Wales - Ultraviolet x-rays of globes from the Paper Conservation Dept. of the National Maritime Museum Greenwich, U.K.
- Cassini-Huygens image of Saturns rings (courtesy of NASA JPL)