186-eclipse-by-gas-giant-dixon - cover of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1977 ; A striking high-altitude perspective from a rugged, ice-dusted alien landscape, looking up at a solar eclipse caused by a massive gas giant. The sun is positioned directly behind the limb of the planet, creating a brilliant diamond ring effect and an intense circular lens flare that illuminates a thin, golden atmospheric crescent. The deep blue sky fades upward into a dark starfield, where three smaller crescent moons align in the distance to the right of the primary planet. acrylic and gouache, 1977
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