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A terracotta sun sits low in the left corner of a sand ground, and seven fine black orbits sweep out from it across the frame. Planets of different sizes ride the orbits, one ringed, one with a small moon on a dotted path.
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Orrery

No. 5 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA terracotta sun sits low in the left corner of a sand ground, and seven fine black orbits sweep out from it across the frame. Planets of different sizes ride the orbits, one ringed, one with a small moon on a dotted path.

What it meansA mechanical orrery turned into a drawing: no scale, no names, only circles and the things that travel on them.

Where it worksFor a study, a child's room or a reading corner.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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Two round chart plates on a charcoal ground, the northern sky and the southern, each centred on its pole and ruled with rim ticks, hour spokes, dashed circles and the ecliptic in a dashed terracotta line. The star figures sit at their true positions, joined in fine bone line: the Plough, the Little Bear, Cassiopeia, Cygnus, Lyra and the Pleiades on the northern plate; Orion, Canis Major, Scorpius, Sagittarius and the Southern Cross on the southern. Aldebaran and Antares are marked in terracotta.Two HemispheresNo. 6
A bright head ringed in gold sits in the upper right of a deep navy ground, and its tail of many fine curved lines in gold, cream and slate fans down to the lower left corner. Small stars fill the sky.CometNo. 7
Eight flat bands of plum, mauve, rose and peach narrow towards the horizon, where a cream half-sun sits on dark plum water. Bars of cream and peach, shrinking as they go, carry its reflection down the page.Banded SunriseNo. 8
A gold disc with a ring of thirty-two short rays sits on a cream ground, with a midnight crescent below it, or beside it on the wide sheets, its curved edge turned towards the sun.Sun and MoonNo. 9
A sky runs from midnight blue at the top through violet to a soft pink glow above low dark hills. A cream crescent lies like a shallow bowl in the upper right, its lit edge turned down towards the sun that has just set; small stars thin out as the sky lightens, and along the horizon a row of slim cypresses and one small minaret stand black against the last light.NightfallNo. 10
An armillary sphere in sand-coloured line on terracotta: a double meridian ring, a broad horizon ring, the equator and the two tropics, a ticked ecliptic band and the two colures around a rust bead, with the polar axis running through, on a slim turned stand. The rings at the back are drawn fainter, so the sphere reads in depth.ArmillaryNo. 11
A round planet striped in mauve, rose, peach and plum sits in the middle of a deep plum ground, with three tilted rings passing behind it and in front. A small peach moon and faint stars fill the corners.Ringed PlanetNo. 12
A solid terracotta disc sits on pale sand, surrounded by rings in terracotta, ochre and rust that get thinner and further apart until they run off the edges as fine lines.Sun RingsNo. 13

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