Category: Moon

Crater Balmer

Balmer Crater
Balmer Crater

Hello artists, how are you? i’m in last day of holyday….tomorrow i start with work…..Three days ago i made my last sketch of Moon behind my home, i’m in sleep but i jump from my bad and go to backyard. The Moon was two days after fool phase, i take.at first ,my bino 10×50 and i see the shadow at right border.
I take my refractor Vixen 90/1300 (old perfect instrument) and made this sketch. The zone are near Crater Petavius and Mare Crisium. I see the particular of crater Balmer with Mountain shadow…..incredible vision, very steady and clear in this scope.
I hope like you.
Best regard at all and clear sky.
Ciao, Giorgio.

Site: Pergola, Marche Region, center italy
Date: 23 August 2013 from 11,30 p.m. to 01,20 a.m.
Moon phase: waning (17,2 days of age)
instrument: refractor 90/1300
eyepiece: 6,2mm (12,4 with barlow 2x)
Magnification: 210x
Technics: Graphite pencill (from 4H to 3B) on sketch Fabriano Paper.

Craters Stofler and Faraday

Craters Stofler and Faraday


Craters Stofler and Faraday
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There are some very fine craters to be found in the lunar highlands among the look-alike craters there. Two that I have included in this sketch are craters Stofler (125 km.) and Faraday (70 km.). Many of the craters in the region have large smooth regions on their floors. The remains of the eastern wall of Stofler form a rampart between older Stofler and Faraday and can be seen near Stofler’s center. The Faraday impact moved the east wall like an enormous excavator. On the south rim of Faraday sit two more overlapping craters, Stofler P (33 km.) and Faraday C (30 km.). That makes 4 fairly large overlapping craters in a small lunar region and many, many more small ones beyond resolution.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, 6”x 11”, white and black Conte’pastel pencils, white pearl eraser and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6mm eyepiece 241x
Date: 08-13-2013 00:10 – 01:50 UT
Temperature: 15°C (60°F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Co longitude: 356.1°
Lunation: 6.9 days
Illumination: 43.3 %
Phase: 97.7°
Frank McCabe

Crater Cichus and Environs

Crater Cichus and Environs
Crater Cichus and Environs

Crater Cichus (41 km.) sits on the remains of the high rim of Mare Nubium in one of the few places where the edge of this mare is clearly visible. Resting high on the rim of Cichus is small crater Cichus C (11 km.). This region is a very interesting piece of lunar real estate which includes craters young, old, concentric ringed, buried ghosts, grabens like the one in this sketch to the north called Rima Hesiodus and domes like Kies Pi just beyond the sketch area. To the west of crater Cichus is a portion of Palus Epidemiarum.
The seeing was slightly less than average but you could wait for intervals of better seeing which arrived now and again.
A fun observation and relaxing sketch with mosquito repellent applied.

Sketching:

For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, 9”x 12”, white and black Conte’pastel pencils, white pearl eraser and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6mm eyepiece 241x
Date: 07-18-2013 02:05-03:50 UT
Temperature: 31°C (88°F)
Hazy, calm, humid
Seeing: mostly Antoniadi III
Co longitude: 27.3°
Lunation: 9.5 days
Illumination: 67.8 %
Frank McCabe

In the Vicinity of Belkovich Crater

Vicinity of Belkovich Crater
Vicinity of Belkovich Crater

One clear winter night , I observed / sketched the hills, mountains with smooth out-lines on the lunar horizon that looks like one of that of the [Chile] Andes mountains of our own globe earth.

With no black ink totch on, instead I rubbed sky-blue pastel color on the background sky. ……….

A nearest alien Place swimming across in cosmos … Nobody stepped , breathed for billion years…

Unfortunately, the original 45×28 cm sketch,s left and upside cut down -out as a A4 size in my home scanner.

span on the lunar limb ; 70 km (cutted from 100km)

8″ refractor x500- 950 (high power observing)

aimed place; maybe Belkovich crater or environs

graphite pencils on a paper

date ; 9th, JAN 2012

seeing ; trembling but clear

Gassendi Crater

Gassendi Crater
Gassendi Crater

Hello!
Object type: crater
Location: Nagyvarsány/Hungary
Date: 2011-12-19
Media: white paper and lead pencils (F, 2B, 5B, 8B)
Equipment used: 80/900 Sky-Watcher refractor

MOON – Colongitude: 197,9° – phase: 37,2%
Gassendi is a very nice crater, the walls of ruined, central mountain is small and cracked the bottom of the crater. Typical FFC.

My blog: http://viktorcsehdraws.blogspot.com/

Clear skies! 🙂

Viktor

Stöfler and Faraday

Stöfler and Faraday
Stöfler and Faraday

Object Type: Moon Craters

Location: Barcelona – Spain

A fantastic embedded collection of craters in the south pole of the Moon. Best seen in the seventh night of lunation.

For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:

http://www.laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/stofler-y-faraday.html

Date and Time: 2013-06-15, 21h 21m UT

Telescope: SC Celestron Nexstar 5i (127mm)

Eyepiece: Orthoscopic 5mm (250x)

White paper, HB2 and 5B graphite pencil, and scanned and inverted with Photoshop

Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)

Transparency: Clear. Suburban Skies.

Thank you and best regards.

Oscar

Moon and Jupiter – November 28, 2012

Moon and Jupiter - November 28, 2012
Moon and Jupiter – November 28, 2012

On the night of 11/28/2012 the Full Moon was shining brightly with Jupiter as its companion. The sketch was done while looking through an old (circa 1960’s) pair of Tasco 8-15×50 binoculars which I recently had refurbished. I used the binocs at 15x for the sketch which was done in Warren county NJ, USA on a laptop computer.