thegetty: Using the planetarium program Stellarium, John…
Using the planetarium program Stellarium, John Callender recreated Caspar David Friedrich’s night sky. His digital image shows a close conjunction between the moon and Jupiter that was visible in the
sky above Dresden on January 6, 1832.There were a
number of close conjunctions in the sky above Dresden during the years
when A Walk at Dusk was made, but none of the others
look like the painting. The conjunction visible on that evening, he says,
is an almost perfect match.Contributed by John Callender to #GettyInspired, an open gallery of creativity inspired by the Getty and created by you.
Oh wow.
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