278-nightfall-dixon – This dramatic astronomical illustration captures a total solar eclipse occurring over an alien planet with a multiple star system. A stone observatory tower stands perched on a rocky, forested ridge to the left, overlooking a vast wilderness landscape under a deepening twilight sky. The eclipsing body is ringed by a brilliant diamond ring effect and a dense, glittering swarm of nearby stars, revealing the stars that are normally hidden by daylight. Cover painting for Asimov novel "Nightfall" about a world with multiple suns on which darkness falls only once every thousand years. Acrylic on illustration board, 1993.
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