WAKING UP FROM A STRANGE DREAM

This one was supposed to have a different aesthetic. But then I looked at the stars and said what if I use constellations. So I mapped out the stars and decided, "I'm from the Northern Hemisphere, I'll use Southern constellations!" So I searched for constellations online, and managed to download a map of constellations. I chose Horologium, (the pendulum clock). I teased it using clocks in my Instagram stories. And as the pendulum ticked to September 1, 2023, the collection was released to be viewed by the stars.

"The French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille first described the constellation as l'Horloge à pendule & à secondes (Clock with pendulum and seconds hand) in 1756, after he had observed and catalogued almost 10,000 southern stars during a two-year stay at the Cape of Good Hope."

- Wikipedia

"Horologium contains no bright stars. The brightest star in this constellation is Alpha Horologii with a visual magnitude of 3.85. It is an orange giant star located 314 light years from Earth. With a magnitude of 3.92, R Horologii is the second brightest star. It is a red giant star approximately 100 light years distant. The third brightest star is Beta Horologi with a magnitude of 4.98. It is a blue giant star about 310 light years from our solar system."

"There are no Messier objects in this constellation but it does contain a number of deep sky objects, mostly star clusters and galaxies. It is also the home of the Horologium supercluster, which contains over 5,000 galaxy groups with over 300,000 individual galaxies. This giant cluster spans an area of space about 550 million light years across. Some of the most notable of these galaxies include a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 1433 and another barred spiral galaxy called NGC 1433, also known as Miltron's Galaxy. Unfortunately none of these can be seen without a large telescope."

- Sea & Sky

You can try and see the constellation and the cover side by side!