From the sketch box, M17.

[KingClinton]

Our monthly challenge is M17, link below, so I went out with the first available clear sky and set about sketching M17.

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This sketch is white pastel pencil on black A5 sketch paper. The nebula itself is brushed on with a thin paintbrush covered with the pastel dust.
The original sketch was photographed and put into photoshop. The texture of the paper shows up in the image and looks like noise, I darkened the background ever so slightly, if you look closely enough you still see a hint of it, I then added a circle border and the text.
The image below that is the exact same pencil sketch put into Startools and processed as normal. Star colours, star spikes are added and I am able to try adjust star sizes and magnitudes.
Makes for a bit of fun and produces a nice digital copy of my original sketch that resembles what I see at the eyepiece.

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The digital version.

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[bladekeeper]

That's pretty awesome, Clinton!

[Falcon 63]

Bryan sums it up perfectly. Well done mate!

[mariosi]

Beautifully done

Marios

[Peter802]

Clinton.
Excellent sketch.
Love it.