Maurolycus crater
Telescope: 76/900 Newton
Date: 09. Apr. 2011
Observing Location: Zakany – Hungary, 46° 15′ N 16° 57’E elev.: 129m
This digital drawing preparated GIMP 2.6 programs.
Thank you for it!
Clear Sky !
Tamas Bognar
http://tamasasztro.blogspot.com
http://tamasfoto.blogspot.com/
Object Name: Gassendi crater
Object Type: Moon
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: 14th April 2011
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. No digital tools used
Equipment used: 130/650 SW 130x, 5 mm Planetary ocular
The weather was awful, what to say: I had approximately 30 minutes to sketch. However, I liked this crater very much, so I tried my best to draw it. I quickly done a sketch then worked out my final draw in the room when all the milky clouds covered the Moon.
dr. Hannák Judit
hannak.judit@gmail.com
Date: 13/04/2011
Object: Herschel C crater
I prepared this picture: Photoshop CS2
Clear sky! 🙂
Viktor Cseh
Lambert crater is a smallish complex crater of 30 kilometers diameter resting on the floor of Mare Imbrium. This Eratosthenian crater must be some 2.5 billion years old. Its outer rampart is impressive, as is its floor, which unfortunately was not seen on this occasion due to morning shadowing.The ghost crater Lambert R was detectable but is best seen closer to the terminator as sunset approaches during the waning crescent phase. Further south from Lambert and Lambert R, crater Pytheas (20 km.) was also visible. Closer to the sunrise terminator Mons La Hire was casting long shadows while crater Euler (29 km) was just catching light on its eastern rim.
To the north of Lambert, Dorsa Stille and Dorsum Zirkel were easily visible along with many small craters.
Sketching Information
Lambert crater on ebony black Canson paper using white and black Conte’ pastel pencils
Sketch Date: April 13, 2011, using a 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian telescope riding on an equatorial platform with a 6mm eyepiece for 241x at 03:00-04:10 UT
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Weather clear, calm, 50 degrees F (10 degrees C)
Lunation 9.5 days
Moon 67.9% illuminated
Colongitude 27.7°
Rükl Atlas Pl 20
Frank McCabe
Object Name: Moon
Object Type: moon
Location: São Bernardo do Campo, SP – Brazil
Date: 2011, april 17th
Media: crayons on white paper
Past friday I was leaving work, in a huge petrochemical industry located in Santo André, when I noticed a shy Moon beside the flare. I kept observing it a couple of minutes, and today, two days after, I decided to sketch it. This is a sample from what I’ve seen that afternoon, about 5h20min. pm local time. (GMT – 3h). Clear skies to everybody!
Best regards,
Rodrigo.
Object Name Sinus Iridium
Object Type Lava plain on the Moon
Location Deventer, the Netherlands
Date April 13, 2011
Media White pastel on black paper
I have made a pastel sketch of one of the features on the Moon which beauty always strikes me whenever it’s visible: Sinus Iridium (Bay of Rainbows). It is a very large feature and always looks very nice in even the smallest telescopes. On that evening of April 13 the Sun’s angle was just right to give the surface that gradient view: dark near Montes Jura with a gradual brightening towards the west. A few rilles were also visible. It was a very pretty sight through my 300mm f/4 truss Dob using a 5mm HR Planetary eyepiece (240x). The sky was a bit hazy while I made the sketch, but the seeing was great.
Kind regards,
Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl
Object Name: Theophilus crater on Moon
Object Type: Moon
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date 8th April 2011
Media: graphite pencil on white paper. No digital tools used.
Equipment used: 130/650 SW, 130x (5 mm Planetary ocular).
It was the first time I tried my 5 mm Planetary ocular on the Moon. It was fascinating, beautiful. It showed me a lot of small details. First I was just watching it with opened mouth then I started to make a sketch about a crater I liked the most. First I made a not-so detailed sketch with some notes, then I started to draw into a new paper from the sketch. I did not like this first drawing so started again from the first sketch and by watching the Moon with the telescope. I have learnt a lot about how the shadows and ligts are changing.
dr. Hannák Judit
hannak.judit@gmail.com
On a beautiful spring evening with mostly clear, warm skies, I was able to sketch the famous fourth ring of the Nectaris basin, namely, the Altai scarp or Rupes Altai. Sunlight was bouncing off the outermost visible rim of this combination basin ring / fault enhancing its visibility north of impressive crater Piccolomini (88 km.) and beyond for 500 kilometers. Some of the sheer cliffs are 3.5 – 4 km.high and are nicely treated and described in Steve Bounce’s interesting study and profile in Selenology Today #10, June 2008.
What was also eye catching about this view was the fine illumination and shadow on the terraces of crater Piccolomini. The 2 km. tall central peaks of this crater above its smooth floor added to the grandeur of the eyepiece view.
Sketching Information:
Sketched on white paper using graphite pencils (HB, 4B, 6B), blending stumps, white Pearl erasers
10” f/ 5.7 Newtonian riding on an equatorial platform and a 6mm eyepiece for 241x
Date and Time: April 10, 2011, 01:50-02:40 UT
Weather: partly, calm, 65 degrees F (18 degrees C)
Seeing: Antoniadi II-III
Lunation: 6.4 days
Moon 34.8% illuminated
Frank McCabe
Object name: Moon
Object type: Moon
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date: 13th March 2011
Media: graphite pencil used on white paper. No digital tools used
Equipment: 10×50 Scopium WA Binocular
Additional info: The weather conditions were not the best, only the lighter start were visible. However the Moon was beautifully lighting on the sky so I have choosen her to draw. Some of the craters were very much visible and sharp.
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dr. Hannák Judit
+36-30-542-68-80
hannak.judit@gmail.com
Object Name: Crater Petavius
Object Type: Lunar crater
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Date: 1979-Sept-8; 4:00 – 4:20 UT
Media: graphite pencils on plain white paper; scanned to jpeg as original.
Equipment Used: 4.25 inch Newtonian; 192x; no filters.
Observing Conditions: fair with a slight haze, calm
Aspects of Interests: Petavius is the large central crater. Notice the distinct central peak and wall details that look like broad ‘steps’. Palitzsch is the ‘knob’ extending south from the east side and is very dark inside edged with bright walls. Wrottesley encroaches in the opposite wall of Petavius and itself seems to have steep walls noticeable on the western edge. A string of tiny craters trails away from Wrottesley. Names of the two similar sized craters running off to the south of Petavius couldn’t be found even though rather prominent. Illuminated walls are very bright. Many tiny craters in the area. Very interesting area.
Thank you,
Jim Garasich
