Title: Arzachel crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: Arzachel crater
Object type: crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 18/02/2013
Media: 6B and 2B pencil
Seeing: I/II (Antoniadi scale)
Description: this crater is deep 3,6 Km and it has a diameter of 96 Km. It is near the craters Alphonsus and Ptolemaeus and is one of the most important crater of the moon.
Object Name: Moon landscape
Object Type Lunar Craters
Location Montreal, Canada
Date November 2, 2011
Media Pastel, black paper.
Here is a sketch I made on the 2nd of November between 21 :00 and 21:45 (local time in Montreal). Overlapping the terminator line, craters Hipparchus and Albategnius put on a nice show that evening. The high contrast of the landscape was propitious for a pastel sketch at the telescope. As the sun rose on the higher mountains and crater’s edge, the interplay between light and darkness slowly unveiled new features on the moon surface. I captured an incomplete “X” at the upper right.
The sketch was scanned and the legend was added with Photoshop. The sketch however has not been “retouched”. I present it as it was at the end of the session.
Jean Barbeau
hi, we ‘re facing another long period with really bad conditions for our hobby, here in Belgium. We exactly had 2 clear nights in the past 3 months. No good at all. But we were lucky yesterday. Clear skies and … exactly when Werner’s X is about to appear. Half past ten PM (22u33) local time, the X appeared slowly. The sketch was made with Conté pastel on black paper.
Equipment used: Tele Vue 101 SDF on Tele Vue Gibraltar mount. Indeed the way Steven O’Meara used to work for his books. Tele Vue Nagler Zoom 3-6mm. No filters used.
Thanks,
/Erik
After observing Saturn early on the morning of 4th February, I shifted my C11 telescope to the Moon.
The 60km diameter crater Bullialdus was prominent in Mare Nubium, with stark shadows and multiple central peaks showing in this illumination. After a quick pencil sketch, I took a photograph and some time later sketched the scene, using soft pastels on white paper.
North is to the top. The two craters below Bullialdus in the centre are Bullialdus A and B respectively. Above and to the left is the large flooded crater Lubiniezky .
It was worth the effort getting up at 4am to take advantage of the excellent seeing conditions and a phase of the moon I don’t often observe.
Details:
Crater Bullialdus in Mare Nubium, C11 (280mm SCT, 2.5x Barlow)
Adelaide, South Australia, February 4th 2013, 5:00 am local time.
Soft pastels on white paper.
-Ivan
Mare Crisium – Hover mouse over image to view labels
Mare Crisium is that interesting isolated sea on the northeastern side of the visible lunar surface. Not long before beginning the sketch, it became fully illuminated.
The Nectarian Period impact event that formed this feature occurred more than 3.8 billion years ago. The mare portion of the basin is about 500 kilometers across. In the grazing sunlight on the floor, wrinkled ridges were visible. Also on the western floor craters Picard (24 km.), Peirce (19 km.) and Swift (11km.) stood out in the low light. I could see the lighter gray bench lava that partly buried craters here such as Yerkes (37 km.). Tall flat top mountains (massifs) beyond the shore stand at 2-5 kilometers above the sea. Both promontoria Lavinium and Olivium stood out clearly in very brief moments.
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: 13.1 inch f/ 6 Dobsonian with 6mm (332x)
Date: 2-13 & 14-2013 23:00 – 00:45 UT
Temperature: 1.7°C (35°F)
Weather: clear, calm
Seeing: not good Antoniadi IV
Co longitude: 310.9°
Lunation: 3.69 days
Illumination: 15.7%
Frank McCabe
Hello folks, [October 28] was very, very cold but the Moon with his Glory looks wonderful, so I thought that I must to draw it:)
Date: 28.10.2012, ~20:00-20:40UT
Location: Bełchatów, Poland
Object: 98% Moon
Weather: High Fog but seeing was very good
I used watercolor crayon on black paper
Thank You!
Clear Skies!
Damian Kępiński
Dear Asod,
I hereby send you my latest sketch of some nice and interesting Moon Craters. Each of the craters was visible in different ways and this is the spice of the whole thing. Hommel was almost fully in dark, Nearch and Viacq was half in dark but half in sunlight, and Rosenberg in fully sunlight. It made the sketching more difficult, but for me it was even more interesting.
Date: 31st October 2011, UT: 16:30 – 17:30
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 130x, Meade neutral filter
Media: Graphite pencil used on white paper
Title: Langrenus crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: Langrenus
Type: crater
Location: Ferrara
Date: 15/01/2013
Media: 6B and 2B pencil, white pastel
Seeing: II (Antoniadi scale)
Description: this crater is deep 2,7 Km and it has a diameter of 32 Km. Around the crater there are a lot of laudslapes and the walls are terraced. The central peak reflects a shadow on the floor of the crater.
With the first clear night in more than one week, I was able to catch the sunset across crater Posidonius (99 km) at the northeastern edge of Mare Serentatis. Posidonius A (11 km.) , the highest of the small central peaks and the tilted and uplifted concentric ridge were the last features catching the light at sunset inside the rim. Also visible and included in this sketch was the northern most portion of Serpentine Ridge. As temperatures were falling throughout the night, I found myself stopping to warm my hands indoors not once but several times. The lunar viewing was excellent this night.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils and a blending stump.
Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian and 9 mm eyepiece 161X
Date: 01-02-2013: 04:30 – 06:00 UT
Temperature: – 16° C (2° F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude: 150°
Lunation: 19.83 days
Illumination: 79.6%
Frank McCabe
A small part of the Moon for You!.
Lunar-Apennines with Archimedes, Aristillus, Autolycus, Mons Hadley , Rima Hadley and…. Apollo 15 landing site—one of the most scientifically successful missions!!!
Yours, Robert
Sketch details:
Object Name: Apollo 15 landing site
Object Type: Moon
Location: Poland, Oborniki
Date: 21.12.2012!
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 409/1800 (Capella 41), 14mm ES eyepiece
Object: – Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
