My sketch of the planet Venus was made when the planet was on its way to transit the sun
in june 2004. Also now in 2012 we have the same situation with Venus and the “last” transit
in june. Some structures in the clouds was seen. I also used a filter this time.
More info on my sketch.
I used pen and pencil for the structures.
Location: Trondheim, Norway.
Best wishes and clear sky: Per-Jonny Bremseth.
here is my best Mars in this Season. Two days ago, the air was calm between 22.30 und 23.30 very well. So I took my drawing board and held the pretty details of the red planet. The surface shows us the white polar cap, Olympus Mons, the Tharsis-Region with it´s Mountains.
Object: Name Mars
Object Type: Planet
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany
Date: 09.03.2012 23.00 p. m.
Media: graphite pencil and white Paper
Objects names: lunar craters Aristarchus, Herodotus and Schroter’s Valley
Objects: Craters, sinuous rille and wrinkle ridges.
Location: Teulon, Manitoba, Canada
Date January 5th, 2012 (7:00-8:30 CST)
Media: Graphite pencils, ink pens and some digital scrubbing on highlights to get brightness adjusted. Original sketch on white paper approx 5″ x 8″
Objects viewed through Celestron Ultima 8 SCT with binoviewer around 250x with fairly good seeing. The individual peaks near the terminator were especially bright. What really struck me were the two wrinkle ridges at the top and bottom that seem to end in craters (but not quite) I had difficulty sketching the brightness range so used a little help from Iphoto to get the highlights back to how I saw them. Because of the amount of objects included, the sketch took longer than usual and some shadow lengths from one end of the sketch to the other would reflect the time difference. Just catching all the turns in Schroter’s Valley is very time consuming. As it was, I still couldn’t capture all that I saw. This was a most intimidating region to sketch.
It was a next day with the clear sky above us. It was also a good time to look at Mercury. It is able to observe only if the seeing is excellent and the planet is at a suitable distance from Sun, so I was quite happy when I had seen its phase.
Object Name: Mercury
Object Type: planet
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 05.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Photoshop CS2
Object Name: alphonsos and arzashel walled plain
Object Type: lunar crater(walled plain
Location: tehran- Zaferanieh Educational Observatory(ZEO))
Date: mordad e 1376(in persian calendar tha is equal to Aug 1997 A.D
Media: HB and B4 pencil on a A4 80 gr white paper
Equipment: 6 inch schmith Maksutov ..zeiss 120X
seeing: A #3
observer: mohammad reza(pejman) norouzi
this 3 walled plain are the most significant craters on moon 7-8 night old.Ranger 9 crashed to Alphonsos after took some brilliant images in 1965 AD.you can observe these triplet crater(catena?!) from night 6 to 8 or even 9. don’t forget sketch them….enjoy it.
Object: Moon Halo & Jupiter – 22 degree Halo around the moon
Object type: Moon & reflected light phenomenon, Jupiter
Location: Maui Hawaii
Date December 3,2011
Media: Charcoal pencil & sketch paper, Photoscape used to invert white to black
I walked outside tonight & beheld this lovely phenomenon I have observed many times here in Hawaii. I had always assumed it was a “Moonbow” but on further research realize it is a 22 degree Halo around the moon. Rough measurements were made using my fingers & fist for the degree of bow around the moon as well as distance of Jupiter from the halo to the North East. The inner halo is very distinct as a white rim that fades outward, and the inner area is darker than the outer. The ring around the moon is caused by the refraction of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of six sided hexagonal ice crystals results in the focusing of the light into a ring.
Hello to all the observers of the ASOD,
Venus Come tightened me arms since a moment on 29/02/2012, it was the opportunity to observe it and to take out pencils!!! it presented an attractive district, we would have said the miniature moon…
Object name: Venus
Object type: planet
Location: Bailly Romainvilliers ( France)
Date: 20120229 at 18:58 UT
SC 11″ G400 – OIII and UV filters
Media: pencil 0,5 HB – A lot of work of stump
