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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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Your comment about blotting with your finger brought something about erasers to mind. I don't know if this is part of your repertoire, but those...
Mars still only measures 10 by 11 arcseconds. That does get quite small, even at 200X magnification. Roughly the size of the Moon with the naked eye....
Despite the weather forecast, there was some sunlight getting through. The intervals where I could get a clear look at the sun were very short, so I...
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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