Space Travel Poster - 55 Cancri F
This illustration is one of a series that I have been working on, borrowing heavily from the
art-deco-style
travel
posters from the middle of the twentieth century.
This one regards the
star 55 Cancri, which is orbited by several planets, one of them called 55 Cancri F. In a commission
for
Sky at Night magazine, I was asked to picture the planet seen from the surface of an
imaginary satellite whose landscape was lush with vegetation. One of the specifics was that the
vegetation needed to resemble 'giant purple broccoli'! The article in question that this
illustration accompanied was one of a series written by comedian, impersonator and astronomy buff,
Jon Culshaw.