Mysterious Rupes Recta

Rupes Recta
Thebit crater & Rupes Recta
Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

Object: Moon. Thebit crater & Rupes Recta
Date: January 23th, 2010
Place: Poland, Wrocław
Equipment: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with S-W SWA58 9mm + barlow 2x
Filter: Moon & Skyglow
Seeing: 4/5
Transparency: 3/5
Weather: Very cold. Light wind.
Technique: Pastels on black paper
Oserver: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

6 thoughts on “Mysterious Rupes Recta”

  1. Aleksander this is a very fine sketch indeed, well done 🙂

    Dale UK

    P.S…is that a Smiley face I see to the lower right? 🙂

  2. Aleksander,

    A most impressive rendering. You suffered in the cold air to make this beautiful drawing.

    Frank 🙂

  3. Thank You guys!
    @Dale
    This formation in lower right really looks like a Smiley face on my sketch. I saw this after cropping and scanning the sketch. Now it looks quite funny 😀

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