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"We love seeing your work and welcome any and all sketches on this forum, but please note whether your sketch is a through-the-eyepiece sketch or your rendition from an existing image / painting."
There were some clear patches between the cloud, so I bin scanned the Sun and saw three small sunspots.
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Hi Philip. A nice solar sketch in white light on the binoculars. It looks like you caught active regions AR3275 on the left and AR3272, AR3273 on the...
I arrived at work in bright sunlight. The three sunspots from the day before had changed shape and intensity. It was amazing how the Sun could change...
Good morning,
Sunspots on 26/2/23 at 07:50 l.t The Sunpots group
13234 13236 are changing very fast. Here is the result and i hope you like it.
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Hi Marios. An excellent sketch of the sunspots this morning. It is very well drawn and I like the annotations, especially on the flickr site. Thanks...
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a quick view in photosphere at 08:50 l.t. with seeing 3/5 looking good. Τhrough the hydrogen line will be amazing.
AR 13226 AR 13220 AR...
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Hi Marios. A very fine and well crafted solar sunspot sketch from you. You caught the active regions with sunspots and also the plages nicely. Thanks...
First sketch gives the impression of 18.00hrs UTC, the second one two hours later.The first is manipulated to show the track of the comet in 2 hours...
Hello all,
Another souvenir from our solar system, comet C2022 E3 ZTF. Light pollution that night, i was unfortunately unable to observe details such...
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Great sketch! As a non-sketcher, I'm always amazed by the skill and patience it takes to do these sketches. Congrats on your VROD recognition.
Ok, let's be honest I really wanted to do a Mak/DSLR shoot but the conditions weren't up to it. I got my bins out and did a drawing instead:
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Hi Philip. Another great solar active region sketch from you again and using binoculars. You drew lots of nice active regions in your sketch. Thanks...
Boxing Day yielded a great opportunity to photograph the Sun. Unfortunately, my back was bad, so I could not use my Maksutov. Instead, I scanned the...
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Nice sketch Philip, keep 'em coming, I want to give solar sketching a whirl in the new year :)
Now this sounds like a record that has been scratched and keeps repeating and repeating and repeated. How many of us in the corporate world get these...
I thought that it was the right moment to sketch Mars while in opposition.
The sketch was made from the backyard while looking through a 140mm OMC140...
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Congrats on your VROD recognition, John! Great color sketch!!
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