Category: Moon

Another Stunning Triplet

Lunar Triplet

Lunar craters Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina
Sketch and Details by Dirk Dehnert

Object Name: Theophylus, Cyrillus, and Catharina
Object Type: Lunar crater

31.03.2009 19:30 to 20:10 Central European Summer Time
Seeing was 6/10. Transparency was 8/10.

Optics: Zenithstar II ED Refractor (80/555 mm)
William Optics 99% Diagonal
1.7 Corrector for my Maxbright Bino
12 mm Plössl Eyepieces
Resulting magnification about 78 times.

Just to relax after work I sat down and sketched this view of the moon
while my children were watching TV. I didn’t plan to sketch those
craters. I looked all over the moon and picked those three craters
Theophylus, Cyrillus, and Catharina because of their beautyful view.
I even didn’t know what area I sketched until I looked up in a moon
atlas;) I prepared a rough sketch using Faber Castell blacklead
pencils on ordinary white office paper. Later on I worked out the
details with eraser and wiper. All in all I spent about 90 minutes for
the complete sketch.

I hope you enjoy it.

Regards,

Dirk Dehnert
Riedstadt, Germany

Note: This is Dirk’s first sketch of the Moon.

An Excellent Piece: Kies Pi Dome

Kies Pi Dome

Kies Pi Lunar Dome
Sketch and Details by Balázs Benei

Object name: Kies craters, dome Kies
Object type: Lunar crater, Lunar dome
Location: Gyöngyös, Hungary
Date: 2009. 03. 06. 18:20 – 18:40 UT

Hello,

this is one of my first sketches from a Lunar object. I liked to observe the domes of the Moon and I decided to make sketches. The Dome Kies Pi was hard to observ, seeing was not very good (s=5). I made the sketch with graphite pencil. It was very exciting to make this sketch, I hope, my technique will grow up in time.
My equipment: 110/800 (4′) Newtonian reflector, 2x barlow, 10mm eyepiece, 160x magnification.

Yours sincerely
Balázs Benei

Practicing Eddington

Eddington 1

Lunar crater Eddington
Sketch and Details by Abraham Tamas

Hi,

my name is Abraham Tamas and I live in Hungary in a small village,
in Zsambek. So, I have a website and I like taking photos about
Moon, deepsky, etc.
The website: www.vadakcsillaga.hu. “Vadakcsillaga” is a hungarian
folk name of the Venus.
This is my first sketch and I copied it about one of my image,
which was taken on 11 November, 2008. I know that the “real” sketch
is made during observing and of course I would like to make more
sketches. My equipment: 8″ Newtonian reflector on eq-5 mount with
2″ WO Swan 33 mm, 1,25″ 15 mm Goldline, 1,25″ 4 mm Planetary
eyepieces and a 2″ TS ED Barlow.

Yours sincerely
Abraham Tamas

Photograph and sketch:

wEddington 2

Lunar crater Eddington, photo and sketch
Sketch and Details by Abraham Tamas

Young by the Moon’s Standards

Harpalus

Lunar Crater Harpalus
Sketch and Details by Szklenár Tamás

Object Name: Harpalus crater

Object Type: Lunar crater

Location: Hungary, Csabacsüd, 20° 39′ 07″ 46° 49′ 29″
Date: 2009.02.06., UT 21:00- UT 21:20
Telescope: 80mm/900 refractor, 6mm Planetary eyepiece, 150x magnification

Harpalus is an exciting object on the Moon, I made the sketch with graphite pen to white paper. The 20 minutes of the drawing was only the making of the base lines and colors – shadow intensity. The next day I finished it by my table, this was about an hour long drawing.

Szklenár Tamás

Giving Gassendi the Digital Treatment

Gassendi

Lunar Crater Gassendi
Sketch and Details by Bognár Tamás

Gassendi

Telescope: 3″ F/11 Newton and 7,5 mm Super Plossl eyepiece

Date: 05.01.2009
UT: 18:14-19:14
Col.: 40.5°

This digital drawing preparated ArtRage 2.5 programs.
The program perfectly emulates the paper ones and the various
draughting instruments! Worthy to test!

Observing Location: Zakany – Hungary, 46° 15′ N 16° 57’E elev.: 129m

Bognár Tamás

Cassini, Aristillus and Autolycus with the Caucasians

Cassini Aristillus Autolycus Caucasins

Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus craters and part of the Caucasus Mountains.
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Hello. This is my next sketch of the Lunar surface. On this sketch: Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus craters and part of the Caucasus Mountains.

Object: Moon. Cassini, Aristillus, Autolycus craters and Caucasus Montes
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5” + barlow 2x + Antares SW 7,4mm
Magnification: about 338x
Place: Poland, Wroclaw – near city center
Weather: Not good. Seeing 5/10. Light Pollution. Light clouds.
Date: 2 February 2009
Technique: Black & White pastels on black paper
Tooling: N/A

Sharp Shadows Over the Caucasian Mountains

Sharp Shadows

The Caucasian Mountains of the Moon
Sketch and Details by Krzysztof Jastrzębski “Jarzbi”

Hi.
This is my first astronomy sketch made with pencils. It’s too hard as
for the first time.
Object Name:
* Object Type (Moon Craters)
* Location (Skawina City in Poland)
* Date (04 January 2009)
* Equipment: Synta 8” Dob, Eyepice LV 5.

Greetings,
Krzysztof Jastrzebski (Jarzbi)

A Belgium Moon Mapper and a Thirteenth Century Theologian

Mercator and Campanus

Lunar Craters Mercator and Campanus
Sketch and Details by Dale Holt

Mercator and Campanus

I scanned the terminator with my 6” refractor, looking for a feature that caught my eye just a little more than the next, that formation that shouted out “sketch me”.
I was drawn to a pair of craters on the terminator, delightfully lit by the Sun and filled with shadows of the moment.
The upper of the two craters in my sketch is Mercator named after a Belgium Moon mapper (1512-1594). It is a flooded crater of 46km diameter with a flat and smooth floor which contrasts well with the very similar sized Campanus just below which is 48km in diameter but has a central peak and more dramatic terraced walls was named in memory of Giovanni Campano a Thirteenth Century theologian, astronomer and astrologer a common combination for the time. A considerable amount of research through my lunar library has led me to identify the small but bright crater to the right of Mercator as likely to be Marth, a German Astronomer 1828-1897, illumination prevented observation of its interesting double wall.  
 
Telescope 6″ F9 Triplet refractor by Superscopes
Magnification 338X
Sketch made on Daler Rowney black paper with Conte Pastels, Derwent Pastle & watercolour pencils with plenty of blending stump action for effect
 
Dale Holt
Chippingdale Observatory
Chipping
Hertfordshire
England

Spectacular Digital Plato

Plato

Lunar Crater Plato
Sketch and Details by Bognár Tamás, text by Rich Handy

114 km walled plain Plato is portrayed with incredible detail by Hungarian amateur astronomer Bognár Tamás in his digital represention. Plato is of Upper Imbrium age (about 3.8 to 3.2 billion years old). It’s broken and collapsed west rim speaks of a history of modification by lavas that have risen to nearly fill it’s now somber floor.

The data of the drawing:
Plato
Telescope: 3″ F/11 Newton and 7,5 mm Super Plossl eyepiece

Date: December 2008

This digital drawing preparated ArtRage 2.5 programs.

Observing Location: Zakany – Hungary, 46° 15′ N 16° 57’E elev.: 129m

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Üdvözlettel !
Bognár Tamás

2009. január 24.