Object name: Moon
Location: Tehran , Iran
Date: 13 June 2013
Time: 21:10 till 22:15 (UT) + 10 mins during that time
Media: Black Fabriano Paper + White graphic pencils
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 130mm with F=650mm + eyepiece 25mm super plossl & 17mm
Weather: Clear
Negar Najafi
Title: a moon crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: /
Object type: crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 13/04/2013
Media: 2B pencil and black marker in white paper
Seeing: III
Description: this is a very small crater near Petavius. I searched the name on an app of my phone and on a book but I didn’t find nothing. Anyway I think it is a intresting crater to sketch.
Hope you like it!
Silvia
Today I present two crescents of the two clear nights (12.04-2013 and 15.04-2013). Although … some people think that these sketches are a little … ghostly … 😉
Yours Robert
Sketch details:
Object Name: Two crescents
Object Type: Moon.
Location: Poland, Oborniki
Date: 12.04-2013 and 15.04-2013
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 409/1800 (Capella 41), and 22 mm eyepieces
Object: ? Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
Object Name: Grimaldi, Hevelius, Cavalerius
Object Type: Lunar craters
Location: Twello, The Netherlands
Date: April 23, 2013
Media: White pastel pencil on black paper
It has been more than a year(!) since my last lunar sketch, but on the evening of April 23th I dragged my 3″ f/16 Polarex refractor outside for some good old sketching.
The most prominent feature on the lunar surface was a line of large craters formed by Grimaldi , Hevelius and Cavalerius. Although the Moon didn’t climb higher than 30 degrees above the Southern horizon, magnifications up to 200x could easily be used. High cirrus clouds made the image a bit hazy (and I had to stop sketching after an hour because of thickening clouds) but the seeing was quite good. The sketch was made through an old 7mm Orthoscopic eyepiece (171x). The image is mirror reversed (north=up, west=left).
Clear skies!
Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl
Hi,
I send my sketch of the Moon. The sketch was made on Aug. 25, 2012, by means of white watercolor and dry pastel. That night the moon was 8 days after the new moon. He was low on the horizon but still was strong in my telescope. This is my first picture of the moon.
GREETS
Date: 25th August 2012
Location: Pasry in Poland
Telescope: Newton 8 ”
Media: white watercolor and dry pastel, black paper
I have observed rima Petavius several times .
One exellant seeing night, 2011. 9[september] .14 …. , I ,d found out with my 8″ refractor at x 340 the three tuna-fish like convex hills on the middle of the 80 km long rima road,,,
I was then feel very happy because maybe this discovery was the first since amateur lunar observing history.
I have made this artistic conception today, a Lunar horizon landscape viewed from on one of the the three [Tuna-fish like hills] which located on the bottom of 4 km wide, 80 km long magnificent rill.
I dont know how many billions of years have passed on this geological creation,formation, or evollution forces- sequences.
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8 inches refractor x 340, homade equatorial
date; 2011. sep. 14
location; at backyard home in South korea
media; graphite pencils , a white A4 printer paper
tranceparency; worst, 0.5-1/10
seeing ; perfect, 10/10
Title: Petavius crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: Petavius
Object type: moon’s crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 13/04/2013
Media: HB pencil on white paper
Seeing: III (Antoniadi)
Description: this is my favourite crater! It has a diameter of 177 Km and it’s deep 3,4 Km. It is a very intresting crater because it has a lot of central peaks and near this impact crater there are many floor’s irregularities and shadows.
All observed with a Sky Watcher Dobson 254 mm, 200x magnifications.
Silvia
Craters Mercator, Campanus and Ramsden
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After another canceled public telescope viewing Friday evening due to thick clouds and light snow, I was pleased to see a nice Saturday filled with sunshine followed by a clear night.
With no particular sketching targets in mind, I scanned the terminator for interesting sketching targets and stopped when I could see sunrise at Ramsden (26 km.) along with all those crisscrossing rimae (rilles).
Northeastward away from Ramsden and across Palus Epidemiarum, I also added two additional ancient craters Mercator (49 km.) and Campanus (49 km.).
This break in our poor Chicagoland spring weather was long overdue.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: 400 series black Strathmore Artagain paper 9″x 9″, white and black Conte’
pastel pencils , and Conte’crayons, a blending stump, plastic eraser.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian with 6mm (241x)
Date: 4-21-2013 01:00 – 02:45 UT
Temperature: 7.2°C (45°F)
Weather: clear, calm
Seeing: good Antoniadi II-III
Co longitude: 35.4°
Lunation: 10.6 days
Illumination: 74.1%
Frank McCabe
Riccioli and Grimaldi Craters
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Aloha!
After a bit of a slump, I decided to get out & observe a little of our Moon. On the lunar west limb I spotted 2 craters that appeared so different from one another that I was intrigued. I knew that one was Grimaldi but was not certain about the other. I sat down to sketch at the eyepiece on a night of good seeing conditions in Hawaii.
Riccioli Crater is the large (140 km) lunar impact crater at the western terminus of the sketch. It is bordered to the southeast by the larger (230 km) Grimaldi & to the northwest by Hevelius. Hedin is still in the darkness and only the edge becoming lit.
Riccioli appears elongate with rough crater walls casting sharp jagged shadows into the basin. There is also visible roughness & debris within the crater. This debris & other striated formations in the region are believed to have been created by ejecta from the formation of the Orientale impact basin to the southwest not seen here. The roughness of Riccioli is in stark contrast to Grimaldi which appears smooth by comparison. Grimaldi, covered in lava makes it appear more like a mare than a crater.
There appears to be a dark line or peak running from Riccioli to crater Lohrmann directly to the east. Multiple small brightly lit rimmed craters surround this area. A double crater with 2 bright rims of light can be seen at the northeast edge of Riccioli.
Both Riccioli & Grimaldi craters were named by 17th century Jesuit priests & colleagues Francesco Maria Grimaldi & Giovanni Baptista Riccioli, who were responsible for many of the names given to features on the Moon today.
Thia (Cindy) Krach
12.5” Portaball 169x
Maui, Hawaii
4/23/13
Black Fabriano paper
white & black charcoal pencils
Title: Cassini crater
My name: Francesca Miola
Object name: Cassini
Object type: crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 18/02/2013
Media: pencil on white paper
Description: it is my first sketch of moon!
Hope you like it friends artists!
