Object Name: Moon
Object Type: moon
Location: São Bernardo do Campo – SP – Brazil
Date: (5 nights – 2010)
Media: 0.5mm mechanical pencil on white paper
Instrument: binoculars Celestron UpClose 10×50 Wide Angle (7º)
Additional information:
The millions of lights from a huge metropolis (more than 20 million people) added to the heavy pollution do affect the sky observation. However, I found out an astonishing Moon through my binoculars, and whenever the sky was clear, I sketched it. I’ve done it from my apartment, fourth floor, through the window. The purpose was to register the position of the terminator, and how some features (specially the seas and Tyco crater) change their appearance according to the incidence of the sunlight. In this sketch we can also notice that there’s no “dark side of the moon”, in fact there’s a “hidden side of the moon”.
I can barely wait for my next vacations in order to go to Itajobi, on countryside, to keep observing under dark skies.
Clear skies to all.
Rodrigo Pasiani Costa
Rodrigo,
Nice sketching sequence of the moon through binoculars.
On any clear night the moon is up it never disappoints.
Frank 🙂
Thanks, Frank. In the beginning, I didn’t like to see the Moon hiding the deep sky objects under its glare, but I’ve already learned to appreciate it.