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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."
Still recovering from the familiar flu. Very well wrapped up. I allowed myself to play outside for three quarters of an hour. It could not have been...
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Such a beautiful sketch of Mars.
When I first saw it I thought it was a photo.
Hope you are feeling better John.
I saw sunlight but when I checked, the sun was behind cloud. However, enough sunlight got through, at times, and I was able to see three fairly large...
Kinda sort of what Jupiter looked like through the new scope. I used an app called Sketch Book which is horrible to use. Oh for a simple drawing app...
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wow, I will check out this application.
Don't bother, it's dreadful. Ridiculously hard to use
(I didn't draw this in situ. I did it later relying...
Last night was observation time anyway. Cold and foggy, but good for planets.
Despite an emphatic advice not to “sit outside for a while”, as I have...
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Thanks John!!
Your post should be a sticky :)
Thanks for the compliment. I'll think about a how to sketch Mars. Quite some work though!
The predicted clear sky did not materialise. There was lot of cloud, with varying degrees but I managed to see two sunspots through my binoculars and...
Amidst the photographic supremacy, here's another sketch of the comet.
Last night around 8 p.m., some holes fell in the clouds in the West. In my...
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And another sketch.
But this time with a 102 mm F5 Startravel refractor.
Magnifications of 20X and 36X didn't put much more weight on it compared to...
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