Title: Grimaldi crater
My name: Silvia Fabi
Object name: Grimaldi
Object type: moon crater
Location: Ferrara (Italy)
Date: 14/03/2014
Media: 6B and 2B pencils
Seeing: II
Description: this is a very interesting crater! There were a lot of details and shadows.
I have tried to sketch it and I hope you like it.
Silvia
Bonjour
Beau spectacle que cette éclipse de Lune du 15 avril, observée en Nouvelle Calédonie. Chapelet réalisé au T400x80 pour bien mettre en évidence les couleurs orangées. Dessin aux crayons de couleur sur papier blanc, puis assemblage informatique.
“Hello
Nice show that this lunar eclipse put on April 15th in New Caledonia. Sketch was done using Chapelet’s T400x80 to include the orange highlights in the obvious places. Drawings completed with colored crayons on white paper, then computer assemblage.”-translation by Frank McCabe
Aloha!
Tonight after setting up with friends and being thwarted by clouds, I raced home to see if I could still observe part of the lunar eclipse from a different location. Upon arriving home I found it was clear and quickly set up my 15×70 binoculars. I was delighted to see h Virginis just peeking its bright head out from behind the limb of the Moon and quickly started a sketch of my observation. The umbra had almost made it over the last portion of the limb and the remaining edge was brightly lit. The Moon took on a coppery glow and the stars shone nearby that normally cant be observed during full Moon.
15×70 Binocular on tripod
Black Stathmore paper, colored pencils & pastels
Thia (Cindy) Krach
Maui, Hawaii
Lunar North Polar Region
For several nights this week the lunar North Pole has been tilted more towards earth due to favorable lunar libration in latitude. It has been a good opportunity to view craters such as Whipple, Peary, Byrd and others. I had a clear night with average seeing so I took advantage of the opportunity to sketch the illuminated region near the pole. At my location the Moon was at more than 60 degrees above the horizon which also helped with the time needed to complete a sketch.
Sketching and Equipment:
For this sketch, I used black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper 9” x 12”, white and
black Conte’ pastel pencils and blending stumps.
Telescope: 13.1 inch f/6 Dobsonian and 6 mm eyepiece (333x) riding on an equatorial platform
Date: 04-09-2014, 01:00-02:35 UT
Temperature: 3° C (38° F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Average – Antoniadi III
Transparency 4/5
Colongitude 16.2 °
Lunation 9 days
Illumination 63.9 %
Frank McCabe
Last Sep 19th is Korean Thanksgiving Day.
It is the most important holiday of Korea, the date is always Aug 15th in the lunar calendar.
I saw the bright full moon at holiday night.
And jujube tree fruits twinkle under moonshine.
So I drew a picture using my smart phone.
Media : Samsung Galaxy Note 2 (S Note App)
Location : S. Korea
Date : Sep 19th, 2013
This is my first ASOD and my first sketch of a moon crater.
Object Name: Copernicus Crater
Object Type: Lunar Crater
Location: Lisbon, Portugal (38º 44′ N 9º 30′ W)
Date: 10-03-2014
Media: graphite pencil
Equipment: ED doublet refractor, 80/720mm, (3.15″) F9; EP 6mm OR, 120x.
It was an exceptional night without wavering at this magnification, so I took a shot at it.
Clear skies
Bernardo Andrade
Lunar Terminator Near to the Western Limb
On Sunday evening I was getting a wonderful view of the lunar terminator near the western limb just a half day before full Moon. The favorable longitudinal libration of -04° 40’ was creating an opportunity to see craters along the terminator that are often poorly placed for viewing.
With storms on the way from the southwest this was a good evening to attempt a sketch. The calm before the arrival of storms often leaves the seeing fair to good as was the case on this night. Craters such as Vasco da Gama (99 km.), Bohr (73 km.), Dalton (63 km.), Balboa (71 km.) and part of Einstein (175 km.) were all seen. Craters Cardanus (51 km.) and Krafft (53 km.) and the crater chain (catena) between them were in bright sunlight. The views all along the terminator were magnificent.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper (9” x 12”), white and black Conte’
pastel pencils. In addition a small artist’s brush and powdered Conte’ white crayon was used for blending. Contrast was slightly increased (+2) using a scanner to better match the original.
Telescope: 13.1 inch f/ 5.9 Dobsonian and 6 mm eyepiece 327 X
Date: 02-25-2013, 04:00-06:30 UT
Temperature: 0.0° C (32° F)
Partly cloudy, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude 86.9 °
Lunation 14.87 days
Illumination 99.5 %
Frank McCabe
Object name: Sinus Iridum
Location:Cañuelas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Media: 6B, 2H pencil; White paper.
Hey ASOD!
I send you an old sketch of a occultation of Saturn by the moon!
This is the most interesting occultation of Saturn I have seen.
The rings were wide open and the sky was clean.
I used a stop- clock for the timing of this event. Info on the sketch!
For my sketch, I used color crayons on black paper.
Location: Trondheim, Norway.
Best wishes and clear sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Thanks for nice comments!
I was hooked when the Chinese [Change III ] had landed on the moon on 14 th December 2013 .
The landing site was in the Mare Imbrium where the peculier landmarks or configurations of the ground were not stood at all, so it seems to me difficult to search the Landing site.
Instead, I have established a plan as an attempting practice to search the Apollo 17 landing site that was issued in the S& T DEC. 2002 p118 or http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html and for the first time I have flown there this night with my refractors …… the result is this a sketch.
It took only 5 minuites to find out where there was with the aid of the one meter diameter paper MOON map of the Arizona University press , …. in the eyepieces, at first I have easily found out the three craters configuration as a red lined triangle marked in my sketch , but without enough previous study for the morphology of this place it was hard to find ” there” [Red lined box].
For the light gathering power of 8″ lens was weak I used only 133 magnification , further the 12″ lens was not adequate in this bad seeing.
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Object; The Apollo 17 Landing Site
Observe/ Sketch; 11. JAN, 2014
8″ f12 refractor, x 133
Lunation ; 11 day
Air temperature; – 8 degree C [very cold]
Location ; Backyard home in South. Korea
White paper [40 x30 cm] , graphite pencils
