Moon – Page 19 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Lunar “Yin-Yang”

Hi!

I have always been fascinated by the shadows on lunar-terminator.

This is a contact of the brightness with the dark side. It’s looks like an ancient symbol “Yin-Yang”. The eternal meeting of day and night. The marvelous spectacle of metaphysical shadows dancing in craters basins.

These seemingly chaotic formations in fact fascinate observer by their complexity and repetition of forms!

Oh! I love sketching the Moon!

With a large mirror (41cm) and eyepiece with good contrast we can admire a lots of details on the lunar surface

My telescope Capella 41 + 14mm ES eyepiece, pencils + paper.

Yours, Robert
Sketch details:
Object Name: The Lunar “Yin-Yang”,
Object Type: Moon
Location: Poland, Oborniki
Date: 20-11-2012
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 409/1800 (Capella 41), 14mm ES eyepiece
Object: – Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

Harpalus Crater

Hello,

a very nice crater is “Harpalus” with it´s surface that remember us to Aristarchus. The fine terraced levels inside the crater and the small Central Mountains give the property an interesting look.

Faint dark “rays” extending from the crater rim north.

Object Name Harpalus Type moon crater Location near Tauberbischofsheim Germany Date 03.05.2012 Media graphite pencil and white Paper

The telescope was a 120/840 Esprit APO from Skywatcher on Vixen SXD

Best greetings

Crater Clavius

Hello friends artists,how are you? I sent you my last sketch of Moon
after some days of fog and humidity,the sky was opaque.
After this days ,finally,the sky was clear on zenit,some little light
fog on the horizon.I take my “old”refractor Kenko 80 1000 and with
surprise,i see the Moon very steady,incredible,the seeing perfect
and,thanks of this situation,i made the sketch of great crater
Clavius.Incredible the little particulars that i see….one thanks also
to my refractor,perfect for this observation.
I hope like you.
Ciao,Giorgio.

Sitre:Pergola,265 m. over level sea
Date: 24-25 October 2012 from 10,30 p.m. to 00,08 p.m.
Lunar phase: crescent(9,7 days)
Instrument:Refractor Kenko 80/1000
Eyepiece and magnification: 12,4mm erfle and barlow 2x(161x)
Seeing.Excelent
Temperature: No cold, humidity.

Atlas and Hercules Craters

Object Name: Atlas and Hercules Craters
Object Type: Lunar Crater
Location: Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona (Spain)
Date: October 4, 2012
Media: Graphite pencil and white paper.

Other data:
Telescope : SW 120/900 ED
Eyepiece: Baader Genuine Ortho 6mm + TeleVue Barlow x2, 300x
Baader Neodymium Filter.
Without clouds, seeing I in Antoniadi scale, good transparency

Lunar Phase: 19 days.
Height of the Moon 45 degrees above the horizon

I hope you enjoy it.

Best regards,

Enrique (iluro)

Craters Lansberg and Reinhold

Both of these craters look similar when their floors are in shadow as was the case when I viewed them. Lansberg (40 km) is a walled plain crater sitting where Mare Insularum meets south Imbrium. This old impact dates back to the Upper Imbrian and is near the center of my sketch. Reinhold (49 km) is a prominent lunar impact crater of the Eratosthenian period and is also on Mare Insularum. It is below Lansberg near the bottom center of the sketch which by direction is north as per the inverted Newtonian telescope view. At the top of the sketch (south) I was able to catch the Riphaeus Mountains receiving first light during this waxing gibbous phase.

Sketching:

For this sketch I used: black Canson paper 9″x 10″, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils and blending stumps. Sketch was scanned

Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian and 6 mm eyepiece 242x
Date: 10-25-2012, 00:30 – 01:25 UT
Temperature: 16°C (60° F)
hazy, high clouds, calm
Seeing: average Antoniadi III
Transparency: poor
Colongitude: 29.0 °
Lunation: 9.52 days
Illumination: 79.0 %

Frank McCabe

A Conjunction with Some History

Conjunction of the Moon, Jupiter and Aldebaran

At the last day of October I sketched a beautiful conjunction between the Moon, Jupiter and Aldebaran. The building in the foreground was my holiday-resort (illuminated by a streetlight), a renovated farm from 1669. By chance: in the first months of 1669 Jupiter was also next to Aldebaran in the sky. So the first inhabitants could have witnessed a similar conjunction. To add some more history: the location was less than 10 km from Middelburg, the town where the telescope was invented!

Clear skies

Jef De Wit

Location: Biggekerke, Netherlands (51°29’ N 3°31’ E)
Date and time: 31 October 2012 around 19.30 UT
Equipment: naked eye
Medium: pastel pencils and soft pastels on black paper (A4), Jupiter and Aldebaran were brightened with Paint

Albategnius Crater

Pictured is Albategnius crater, sketched [June 26, 2012] during a 4 hour session behind my William Optics 80 II FD apo. 156x, 3.5mm Nagler. The clouds disturbed every now and then, that’s why it took quite some time.

Hope you like it!

Erik van Woerkens, from Belgium.

Eclipse in Tokyo

I went to Japan to observe a solar annular eclipse. (My hometown is Korea.)
This picture is the moment of annular eclipse, the gold ring and the surrounding landscape.

Location : Asakusa, Tokyo (The other side of the river, The world’s second tallest building ‘SkyTree’ tower is visible.)
Date : May 21, 2012
Equipment : Naked eye, Baader Solar Filter, 9*63 Finder (http://www.nightflight.or.kr/xe/files/attach/images/25489/324/058/3f36237ec11d646f99a6bd2e94c99a1c.JPG)
Media : White paper, Pastel, Colored pencil

Crater Endymion and Environs

Hello ARTISTS! All o.k.? this is one of two last sketches of Moon made in two consecutive days behind my home.This first sketch i was made for testing the collimation of my C8 after the accidental fall…..on the grass fortunately!!! the scope was in order and i take this opportunity for made my sketch after one month.I hope like you….
Ciao a tutti!!
Giorgio.

Location : Pergola ,Marche Region,Center Italy at 293m of altitude.
Date: 2 October 2012
Lunar Phase: 16,9days
Instrument:S.C.Celestron c8
Magnification:161x
Eyepiece: 12,4mm erfle
Seeing:Good,turbulence at the end
Temperature:Light cold,no wind.

The Modified Crater Heraclitus

The southern lunar highlands expose the ancient anorthositic crust between craters. Centered in this southern highland sketch is the buried pre-Imbrian crater Heraclitus (92 km.) with its unusual central mountain crest. This ridge or crest looks much like the one on the floor of the elongated crater Schiller formed during its shallow angle impact. The ends of Heraclitus are buried under Licetus (77 km.) to the north and Heraclitus D (52 km.) to the south. Its easy to imagine this possible Schiller twin here partly hidden. To the east is crater Cuvier (76 km.) with its smooth floor and western wall pressing in on Heraclitus.

Sketching:

For this sketch I used: black Canson paper 9″x 12″, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils and blending stumps. The scanned sketch is unmodified

Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian and 4 mm eyepiece 362x
Date: 09-24-2012, 00:15 – 01:50 UT
Temperature: 10°C (50° F)
clear, calm
Seeing: average Antoniadi III
Colongitude 11.3 °
Lunation 7.9 days
Illumination: 63.5 %

Frank McCabe