Category: Moon

Bailly Crater and Region

Lunar crater Bailly and environs - August 9, 2014
Lunar crater Bailly and environs – August 9, 2014

Hi,

Please accept my submission of Baily crater and surrounding region. The weather was very nice that night; warm and dry and the seeing was excellent. The Moon’s liberation was favorable to bring Bailly just past the terminator. I made this sketch using my 10” Discovery Dobsonian telescope at a magnification of 170x with neutral filter.

Object Name: Bailly crater and region.
Object Type: Lunar Crater
Location: My backyard in Green Bay, WI, USA
Date: 8/9/2014 2:00 UTC
Media: mechanical graphite pencils (2H, HB, 2B, 4B), white paper and blending stumps

Thank you,

Brian Chopp

Sirsalis Crater Area

Sirsalis crater and environs - August 9, 2014
Sirsalis crater and environs – August 9, 2014

• Object Name: Sirsalis crater area
• Object Type: Lunar crater
• Location:Terrace housing Alcorcón – Spain
• Date: August 8, 2014 22:30h TU – Lunation 13 days, illumination 95%
• Media: Graphite Pencil 3H, 6B, 6B graphite rod torchon 1 and white paper
• Formated with GIMP 2.8

Observation notes:

Drawing Sirsalis crater area
(Position: Longitude: 60.507° West Latitude: 12.492° South Side: Nearside Quadrant: South-West Area: Moon West limb)

Rima Sirsalis (left)
craters:
Sirsalis of 41 km is superimposed on Sirsalis A of 48 km.
To the left and from top to bottom:
Sirsalis H: 26 km.
Sirsalis G: 30 km.
Sirsalis F: 13 Km.
Sirsalis J: 12 Km.

New 10” dob telescope, 220x. City sky. 25º C. Moisture 40 º/º.

Greetings to all visitors of this page. PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 8/10/2013

Moon-Crater Mersenius

Lunar crater Mersenius - August 7, 2014
Lunar crater Mersenius – August 7, 2014

Hello,

After some weeks during the “White nights” without a look in the sky, I started observation at the 7th August with my new 130/1200 Aspherical Doublet Apochromat (it was planned by Ralf Mündlein and me in the last two years) the planet. The air was quite well and the conditions were warm and dry.

A nice crater with some little impacts and mountains at the bottom took my attention. So I made a drawing of this view. I hope you like the “Mersenius”.with it´s nice landscape.

CS Uwe

Object: Moon
Object Name: Crater Mersenius
Telescope: 130/1200 Aspherical Doublet Apochromat
Eyepiece: 7mm Nagler / Maxbright Binocular
Magnification: about 170x
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany

Moon Race Watercolour

July 4-8, 2014 - Conjunction of Moon with Mars, Saturn and Spica
July 4-8, 2014 – Conjunction of Moon with Mars, Saturn and Spica
July 4-8, 2014 - Conjunction of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Spica
July 4-8, 2014 – Conjunction of the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Spica

* Object Name (Moon, Mars, Saturn)
* Object Type (Conjunctions)
* Location (Artignosc-sur-Verdon – Provence – France)
* Date (2014 from 4 to 8 July)
* Media (Watercolour, white paper, paint.net to invert the result)

From July 4 to 8 Moon played with planets. From a purely astronomical point of view the Moon showed us some beautiful conjunctions, Mars, Spica and then Saturn. By the way the game was a little complicated with the clouds. What a season!
On July 5, the moon was still visible behind heavy clouds. The next day, I have not even been able to detect the moon light ! I had to invent the sky. July 7, when the Moon approaches Saturn, clouds returned to disturb the magic of the moment. I’m a bit fed-up about this weather, and I think not being alone!
The advantage of astro-artist on the astro-photographer is that we can complete our design. This time I have to add the missing lunar position on the view. And to capture those irritating clouds, I painted a hazy wash around the Moon as was the case on July 5.
The small hilltop village that served as a foreground is called Artignosc-sur-Verdon. I confess to being quite happy by this view. Artignosc is just halfway to two now well-known astro-spots “The Blaque” in Varages and the OAB in Bauduen. And ‘cause we are nevertheless in Provence, believe me above the clouds the sky is very dark!
Still … what a season!

To do this watercolour, I went out on my terrace at ten PM every night, sometimes before the storm, sometimes after and once during, being passionate or you do not. Every time I sketched some sketches in a hurry, and took two or three pictures allow me to keep the shades. At the workshop, I started by gathering the different positions of the stars and their locations relative to the village. In less than a week, only the Lunar race was noteworthy, Mars and Saturn are much quieter than the stars. Then I realized in reverse mode (colors and contrast) this watercolour. I just had to scan my sheet and reverse the colors.

http://astro.aquarellia.com

Michel Deconinck

A little fat Owl

"A Little Fat Owl", Lunar craters Fra Mauro, Parry and Bonpland - May 8, 2014
“A Little Fat Owl”, Lunar craters Fra Mauro, Parry and Bonpland – May 8, 2014

It had been a while since I did a lunar sketch. May saw me complete my first lunar sketch in many months. I made several attempts, but on those occasions, seeing was so poor the Moon was ‘boiling’ using just 100X magnification. Disappointing and frustrating. Eventually things did change in my favour…

As always, unless I have a specific target in mind, I just let my eye wonder along the terminator to see what pricks my interest. And, as there are several repeated alphanumeric apparitions on the Moon, I’ve found a second avian one! Some time ago I spotted an owl formed around the crater Mercator. Last night I found a second Owl, this time around the flooded craters Fra Mauro (the fat body), Parry (the right eye), and Bonpland (the left eye).Cute little fella I think is formed here J.

As it turns out, Fra Mauro is just to the south of the Apollo 14 landing site – south is to the top of the page, so the Apollo 14 site lies just below where the Owl’s feet would be.

Object: “Little Fat Owl”, craters Fra Mauro, Parry and Bonpland
Scope: C8, 8” SCT
Gear: 5mm Baader Hyperion, 400X
Date: 8th May, 2014
Location: Sydney, Australia
Media: White & grey soft pastel, charcoal and white ink on A5 size black paper
Duration: approx. 2hrs.

Moon Crater Tycho

Lunar crater Tycho - July 12, 2014
Lunar crater Tycho – July 12, 2014

Moon Crater Tycho
Telescope: 8″ f6, reflector on Dobson Mount
Eyepiece: Delos 12mm
Made July 12th 2014 at 23h UTC
The most visible item on full moon.

Aurelio Alcalde
Normalmente en: lat: 40º 27′ 21” N, long: 3º 38′ 50” W
Ocasionalmente en: lat: 40º 05′ 58” N, long: 5º 47′ 05” W

Copernicus crater

Lunar crater Copernicus - July 8, 2014
Lunar crater Copernicus – July 8, 2014
Detail of Copernicus crater - July 8, 2014
Detail of Copernicus crater – July 8, 2014

The atmosphere on my loction is generally not stable in spring ,summer and I had to eyepiece- sketch fastly this crater for 1 hour before the heavy clouds came on and hid the moon.

Think about the never- changing lunar morphology always make my mind to be infatuated with humble, sad, lonely feelings.

This relatively young [ yes, … “young” ] lunar crater has a 800 million years old age. My humble heart can not accept ,perceive even the vastness of the time-span of my mother country’s 4500 years written history…. then, Ahy-, … it is like as that the repeat of merely 200,000 times mother country’s full history will reach the age of the Copernicus crater.

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Object; Copernicus crater [sketched only 1/6 area]

Observe/ Sketch for 1 hours; July 8, 2014

13″ refractor, x 420, uwa 8.8s #4000, binoviewer

Lunation ; 12 day

Location ; Backyard home in South Korea

White paper [33 x25 cm] with pencils , A4 priter paper for explanation

Another Look Near to the Altai Scarp at Higher Sun

The lunar craters Riccius, Rabbi Levi, Zagut and Lindenau near the Altai Scarp - July 4, 2014
The lunar craters Riccius, Rabbi Levi, Zagut and Lindenau near the Altai Scarp – July 4, 2014
Riccius, Rabbi Levi, Zagut and Lindenau - Labeled
Riccius, Rabbi Levi, Zagut and Lindenau – Labeled

Two hundred or so kilometers to the southwest of the Altai Scarp you will find a mix of large and small highland craters that may catch your eye as they did mine. Many have written of the “boring” look-a-like craters of this region but good lighting can make a big difference in appeal here. Ancient Riccius crater (71 km.) is a worn, an almost obliterated remnant, covered and surrounded by crater from 10-15 km. of various ages. Adjacent to Riccius is crater Rabbi Levi (81 km.) with an interesting short chain of craters across its floor. The next crater Zagut (84 km.) is the largest of those in the sketch with Zagut A (11 km.) near the center of the floor and Zagut E (35 km.) pushed through the eastern wall of Zagut. Next to Zagut is crater Lindenau (53 km.) which is younger than the other large crater here as evidenced by the sharper rim and what looks like a part of a central peak remaining.
A fine summer evening of observing and sketching after a long spell of poor weather.
Sketching and Equipment:

For this sketch, I used black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper 8” x 12”, white and
black Conte’ pastel pencils and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6 mm eyepiece (241x) riding on an equatorial platform
Date: 07-04-2014, 01:15-02:50 UT
Temperature: 16° C (60° F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Average – Antoniadi III
Transparency: 4.5/5
Colongitude: 349.0 °
Lunation: 6.7 days
Illumination: 36 %

Frank McCabe

Double Crescents

The conjunction of the Moon and Venus - January 2, 2014
The conjunction of the Moon and Venus – January 2, 2014

I got a quick walk up the hill behind the house this afternoon with 8×32 Nikon binoculars, I scanned for Venus at 16.20ut and was surprised to see a very thin crescent moon in the same fov, also even in the binoculars Venus was a sharp and beautiful crescent, I walked home quickly and made a memory painting in watercolours to try and capture a totally exquisite sight 🙂

Dale

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