Hi!
I present to you my last sketch of the Moon surface.
In the center of the sketch is Mare Nectaris and craters i.a: Teophilus, Cirillus, Catharina, Fracastorius, Isidorus, Capella and more.
Object: Moon, Mare Nectaris
Scope: SCT 5″
Magnification: about 178x
Technique: White pastel crayon on black paper.
Author: Aleksander Cieśla (wimmer)
Object Name: Sun-Sunspots 1512-1513- 1515-1517
Location: Tehran-Iran
Date: July 3, 2012
Time: 14:00 Local Time (+3:30 GMT)
Media: Soft Pastels on Black Fabriano paper
Optic: 80 ED APO Refractor Telescope
Focal Length: 600 mm
Eyepiece: 9mm UWA- 1.25′′- 58º
Photo Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Shutter Speed: 1/6400 sec
ISO:200
Clear Skies
Mona Sorayaei
Object Name: Sun
Object Type : Full disk
Location: Montreal, Canada
Date: June 29th 2012
Media: Red pastel on black paper, Photoshop CS3
This is my first sketch of the sun in H-alpha using my new solar scope Lunt LS60THa. The Lunt Zoom eyepiece, 7.2 – 21.5 mm, was used. Seeing was 3/5.
Jean Barbeau
During the beginning month of this year, I could concentrate hardly myself for observing the moon.
One clear winter night, I observed / sketched this landscape on the Lunar limb.
This Northern lunar place is located just above the crater [John Herschell]……..
[P.S]; For a previous lunar horizon sketch….. I had a grave mistake, the place just above [J. Herschell] was not [ Anaximander ], but “‘Here…..[unknown place] is right.
8 inches refractor x 300 -500
White paper, graphite pencils, black ink, paster…..
I ‘m relatively new to astro sketching, actually this is my second serious attempt.
Pictured is Mare Imbrium in the middle, with large craters from north to south: Plato, Archimedes and Eratosthenes. I ‘m really starting to love this area.
The drawing was made with pastel crayons on white paper, directly behind a WO Megrez 80 II FD, 123x magnification. Hope you like it!
Erik van Woerkens, from Belgium.
Moon with the Earthshine
Location & Date (sketch was made in 2012 because of memories of my first view of the earthshine in maybe 2000)
pastels & white paper
Have a good day 🙂 ,
Maciej Mucha
Object Name: Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina
Object Type: Craters
Location: Płaza, Poland
Media: black paper, pastels
Telescope: Synta 8 (200/1200)
Magnification: 240x
Seeing: 4/5
This is my new sketch of one of the hardest things to sketch. I mean the Moon or craters that you can find on the lunar surface. There are dozens of small holes and surface irregularities that we should put on our sketch. Nevertheless I tried to present three craters which are lying close to each other on a piece of paper. My target were Theophilus, Cyrillus and Catharina. And here is my sketch.
Location : Seoul, S. Korea
Date : June 6, 2012
Media : Black Paper, Pastel
Equipment : Coronado PST40, Nagler Type6 9mm
I was in Mesa, Arizona for a few days and on the evening of Tuesday May 22, 2012, at 8:45 pm (local time) I was treated to a fine view of the Moon and Venus before they set in the West Northwest.
A sliver of the Moon was illuminated by the sun and the remainder lit by the gibbous earth (earthshine), a real treat for a mid-westerner like myself. I had some sketching materials with me so I made this sketch of the view on this warm evening 37°C (98°F).
Sketching:
Blue sketching paper, blending stumps, Crayola pencils (assorted colors), oil pastel crayons (assorted colors), Conte’ crayon pencils black and white, white and pink Pearl erasers
Venus was at waning crescent phase on 2 weeks from its solar transit.
Moon phase: 2.2 days old waxing crescent
Illumination 4%
Frank McCabe
Location: Frosinone, Italy
Date: from 2012/02/17 to 2012/03/27
Media: Pastel and digital tools
4.5 inch newtonian. Sketches made from my balcony, in Frosinone (italy). No filters, average enlargement of 250X.
