Date: 2011-10-13 / 18:30 UT
Observer: Viktor Cseh and Tamas Cseh
Location: Nagyvarsány / Hungary
I prepare this digital picture, with Photoshop CS2.
Clear Sky!
Viktor 🙂
Conjunction of Jupiter and the Moon
Category: Moon
Conjunction of Moon and M44
While reviewing my log book I came across this sketch of the conjunction of the Moon and M44, May 10, 2008 as seen from my backyard in Orleans, Ontario, Canada at about 10:10 local time. The sketch was made with white pastel on black paper and scanned into the computer, No processing was done. The seeing was very good that evening. My log comments that at 200x in my 8″ Dob everything was very steady. I was struck by the beauty of this conjunction especially with the earthshine on the moon.
Clear skies,
Gordon
Mare Serenitatis
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: 3rd October 2011
Media: Graphite pencil used on white paper
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 93x
Dear Asod,
I send you here my sketch about Mare Serenitatis, an area where a very interesting landscape can be observed. We can see craters, chains of hills, ruptures and deeper areas in one place, also with different colours in the material. I liked it so much I tried to sketch despite it was not an easy peace of cake. I hope you will like it.
Kind regards,
Judit Hannak
—
dr. Hannák Judit
Jupiter and the Moon in Conjunction with the big Tower
Object Type: Conjunction
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: October 13th 2011
Media: Pastel
On October the 13th while returning home after a lecture given by the astrophysicist J.P. Luminet, I saw this beautiful conjunction between our moon, Jupiter and the Dome of the Tower of the University of Montreal where I work. Our moon looked as if it rested on a small cloud. I sat on a nearby bench and took my time to sketched the view in my notebook. I copied the sketched at home on black paper, adding colors with pastel.
Jean Barbeau,
microbiologiste
Faculté de médecine dentaire
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal, Qué
H1T 1K3
Five Day Moon
location:tehran-iran
Date:2011/09/05
time:9pm-9:30pm
media:black paper-white pencil
condition:bad seeing
lunation:5 days
Albategnius Crater
Object name:Albategnius Crater.
Object type:Crater
Location:Tehran-Iran
Date:2011/08/06.
Time:9:45pm-10:45pm local time (+3:30 GMT).
Media:Graphic pencil white paper-photoshop edit.
Equipment:200mm Dobsonian telescope-f/6-focal length 1200.
Conditions:Clear sky-Bad seeing
This crater named for “Al-Battam” Arab astronomer and mathematician.
Clear sky
Banafsheh Yaghoubi
Craters Frankin and Cepheus One Night Apart
With the Moon at waning gibbous phase, it continues to dominate the night sky for a few more days. On Tuesday night I carefully picked a target area for sketching so that I might catch it again the next night to see the change in shadows a day makes. Lucky for me the sky was clear both nights.
Crater Franklin (58 km.) is the larger and older of the pair and Cepheus (41 km.) has a visible impact crater namely, Cepheus A (13 km.) directly on its northeastern rim.
Sketching Information
First Sketch
Franklin and Cepheus craters on ebony black Canson paper using white and black Conte’ pastel pencils
Sketch Date: August 16, 2011, using a 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian telescope riding on an equatorial platform with a 6mm eyepiece for 241x at 05:00-06:10 UT
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Weather: Clear, calm, 59 degrees F (15 degrees C)
Lunation: 16.5 days
Moon 94.3% illuminated
Colongitude: 115.7°
Second Sketch
Same type of paper
Sketch Date: August 17, 2011, using same telescope and same eyepiece at 04:00-05:15 UT
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Weather clear, calm, 64 degrees F (17 degrees C)
Lunation 17.4 days
Moon 89.3% illuminated
Colongitude 127.3°
Frank McCabe
Lunar Eclipse – First of 2011
Location: Malta
Date: 15 June 2011
Media (blender, charcoal, pencil colour, white paper, GIMP)
http://znith-observatory.blogspot.com
This is my first composite sketch of a total lunar eclipse that took place yesterday on June 15, 2011. It was the first of two such eclipses in 2011. The second will occur on December 10, 2011.
I used graphite with blender and an orange pencil colour. Sketching was done at the 40mm eyepiece using SCT 8″ f/10. Conditions were clear and seeing was 7/10.
The individual sketches were made on scanned sketches of the full moon. Scanning was done at 600 dpi and processed using GIMP. I enjoyed sketching the various phases of the eclipse especially during the fast-changing penumbral phase.
In my sketches I tried to capture the interesting tonality of the orange colour shading visible over parts of the eclipsed region of the moon.
This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse, in which the center point of Earth’s shadow passes across the Moon. The eclipse was visible rising over South America, western Africa, and Europe, and setting over eastern Asia.
Posidonius
lunar crater
Tehran
2008 aug.
80 gr. white paper-2H fabercastell drawing pencil-no editing or processing
seeing: antoniadi 3
equip.:vixen 8 inch-12 mm eyepiec
i have been observing moon and its craters many years and one of the most beautiful craters i observed is posidonius (a huge ring plain from class 3(in baldwin crater classification))).it seems like a double crater !( a crater inside a bigger crater.) with rounded and some ruined wall.
some smaller craters are around (and inside even) it . i love ! its interior cleft.i have made many sketches from it in these years and this is one f them.
regards
—
mohammad reza(pejman) norouzi
amateur astronomer-science educator – science writer.-biologist
www.kacoli.blogfa.com
Moon visits the Scorpion
On holiday in France I witnessed a beautiful conjunction between the Moon and the constellation Scorpius. Sketching the background with a pastel pencil was the most difficult task to do. I think I will use a chalk pastel next time for a smoother result. There is also still some work on the stars (I almost never draw naked eye stars). On the other hand the glow around the Moon looks very nice. Hope you like my holiday souvenir.
Clear skies
Jef De Wit
Object Name: Moon and constellation Scorpius
Object Type: moon and asterism
Location: Louroux-Bourbonnais, France (46°33’ N 2°51’ E)
Date and time: 7 August 2011 around 20.15 UT
Equipment: naked eye
Medium: color pastel pencils on black paper, Antares and Moon were redraw digital, process with Paint