Born in 1968, Kagaya is a renowned Japanese digital painter known for his hyperrealistic celestial illustrations used in astronomy books, magazines, and planetariums. While accurately depicting stars, his images have a fantastical quality through his techniques of Hyper Realism and Celestial Transparency. He is most popular in Asia and honored with the naming of a minor planet for his contributions to astronomy through his artwork.

48. Born in 1968. Japanese fine artist. A reputed world forerunner of Digital Painting --doing whole works thoroughly on computer. Since he was fascinated by celestial stars in his childhood, he has been working for astronomy, contributing many astronomical illustrations to books, magazines, and planetariums. Having his eternal motif in the grandeur of the cosmic world, he is also active in working for fine-art pictures and animation-movies. While stars are drawn just as they really are, nevertheless, images are fantastic and inspiring, by virtue of his Hyper Realism and his Celestial Transparency. He is most popular in Asia. "the Zodiac, 12 Greek mythologies" is the best-seller in Jigsaw puzzles. The minar planet 11949 is named Kagayayutaka after his real name in honor of his contribution to astronnomy as an artist. KAGAYA

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