Planetary conjunction at dawn: Venus, Jupiter, Moon, Aldebarán, Pléyades and Hyades.
Drawing made at 5:30 in the morning from the balcony of house in a village near Toledo, Spain.
July 15, 2012
Sketch made with graphite on white paper, inverted with Photoshop.
The sky was crystal clear and pristine,
Alpha
A beautiful sight for the eyes… although it should be up early enough to see.
Hope you like it.
Leonor
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Hi!
I present to you my last sketch of the Moon surface.
In the center of the sketch is Mare Nectaris and craters i.a: Teophilus, Cirillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, Isidorus, Capella and more.
Object: Moon, Mare Nectaris
Scope: SCT 5″
Magnification: about 178x
Technique: White pastel crayon on black paper.
Author: Aleksander Cieśla (wimmer)
During the beginning month of this year, I could concentrate hardly myself for observing the moon.
One clear winter night, I observed / sketched this landscape on the Lunar limb.
This Northern lunar place is located just above the crater [John Herschell]……..
[P.S]; For a previous lunar horizon sketch….. I had a grave mistake, the place just above [J. Herschell] was not [ Anaximander ], but “‘Here…..[unknown place] is right.
8 inches refractor x 300 -500
White paper, graphite pencils, black ink, paster…..
I ‘m relatively new to astro sketching, actually this is my second serious attempt.
Pictured is Mare Imbrium in the middle, with large craters from north to south: Plato, Archimedes and Eratosthenes. I ‘m really starting to love this area.
The drawing was made with pastel crayons on white paper, directly behind a WO Megrez 80 II FD, 123x magnification. Hope you like it!
Erik van Woerkens, from Belgium.
This sketch is of the 220km diameter crater Clavius, which is near the lunar South Pole. The orientation of this sketch is is with North to the bottom, so the crater Rutherford is at the top left, and Porter is at the bottom left.
The sketch was done from a photo taken in Adelaide, South Australia, on 2012-05-30, when the moon was 67% illuminated. The telescope was a 150mm SCT.
Medium is charcoal on white paper.
-Ivan
Moon with the Earthshine
Location & Date (sketch was made in 2012 because of memories of my first view of the earthshine in maybe 2000)
pastels & white paper
Have a good day 🙂 ,
Maciej Mucha
Object Name: Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina
Object Type: Craters
Location: Płaza, Poland
Media: black paper, pastels
Telescope: Synta 8 (200/1200)
Magnification: 240x
Seeing: 4/5
This is my new sketch of one of the hardest things to sketch. I mean the Moon or craters that you can find on the lunar surface. There are dozens of small holes and surface irregularities that we should put on our sketch. Nevertheless I tried to present three craters which are lying close to each other on a piece of paper. My target were Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina. And here is my sketch.
I was in Mesa, Arizona for a few days and on the evening of Tuesday May 22, 2012, at 8:45 pm (local time) I was treated to a fine view of the Moon and Venus before they set in the West Northwest.
A sliver of the Moon was illuminated by the sun and the remainder lit by the gibbous earth (earthshine), a real treat for a mid-westerner like myself. I had some sketching materials with me so I made this sketch of the view on this warm evening 37°C (98°F).
Sketching:
Blue sketching paper, blending stumps, Crayola pencils (assorted colors), oil pastel crayons (assorted colors), Conte’ crayon pencils black and white, white and pink Pearl erasers
Venus was at waning crescent phase on 2 weeks from its solar transit.
Moon phase: 2.2 days old waxing crescent
Illumination 4%
Frank McCabe
Two weeks ago, I went to Japan to observe a solar annular eclipse. (My hometown is Korea.)
This picture shows the moment of eclipse before and after.
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 : Black paper, Colored pencil
Please find attached my sketch of Bullialdus and its near area with some visually prominent craters. It was really intersting to observe these very different craters in one sketch. We can see newer and really old ones too.
Equipment used: 130/650 newtonian, 130x, Meade neutral filter
Media: graphite pencil on white paper
Date: 30th May 2012, UT: 18:20 – 19:10
Place: Budapest, Hungary
Object: Moon / Lunar Craters (Bullialdus, König, Kies, Lubiniezky)
Kind regards,
Judit
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