Lunar craters Atlas and Hercules

[acr_astro]

Hi all,

on Saturday evening I could do a lunar charcoal/chalk sketch. This time on the fourth day of the moon, the duo Atlas and Hercules attracted me. On the sketch North is up, East is left.

Telescope: Celestron Nexstar 127 SLT

Eyepiece: TS HR Planetary 7mm

Technique: charcoal and chalk on black sketching cardbox

Date & Time: Jan 24th, 2015; 1920-2010 CET

I depicted the craters Atlas, Hercules, Atlas E, Hercules F and Keldysh.

Then I remembered having done an Atlas sketch already last spring. So I went to the archives and did a comparison of the two sketches. Both sketches have been done with my 5” Celestron MAK. What we can see is the different lighting conditions based on moon age and libration. Furthermore, the seeing conditions last time have been much better than on Saturday – I could not go up to 300x yesterday but had to leave it with the 7mm EP.

Hope you enjoy it.

Clear skies!

Achim

[mariosi]

Very nice drawings and very detailed.

Excellent work Achim!

Thank you for sharing and clear skies always.

Marios

[Qualia]

Such gorgeous sketching and frightening talent, Acr. Thank you for sharing your work with us and I look forward to seeing me

[Astro Imp]

Lovely work Achim, thanks for sharing your talent with us.

Good luck and clear skies.

[ghostdance]

........I look forward to seeing me

Getting your portrait done? :D

Lovely sketch Achim - I was looking at this pair a couple of evenings ago...Your sketch is wonderfully detailed and ensures I'll visit H&A again

[bish]

Great work.  I think I need some art lessons!

[acr_astro]

Hi all,

thank you all for the nice feedback!

Clear Skies!

Achim

[michael23]

As said by all, that's some lovely drawing, thanks for sharing.