Below Parry is the walled plain Guericke at 63km its larger but heavily eroded and partly open to Mare Nubium.
Telescope / 4" f/11 Lyra
EP / 3-6mm Nagler zoom at 5mm x220
Date 20/1/13
Temp / -1˚C
Transparency / clear
Antoniadi II
Colongitude 17.5˚
Phase 69.4˚
Lunation 9.04 days
Sketched with Conte pastels and charcoal on a 12"x8" sketch pad.
Last night was the first time using my little 4" Lyra on the moon....By the time I finished the sketch my teeth were cold and my jaw was aching from grinning so much, it really is a cracking little scope with hardly any CA visible and teamed up with the Nagler zoom it proved to be a winning combo!!
The whole point in getting the Lyra was to get out and enjoy whatever clear skies we get, if I didnt have it I wouldnt have gone out last night. Stood up nudging a big dob whilst trying to juggle with bits of charcoal and pastels isnt the way to make a lunar sketch believe so the I think the Lyra is here to stay for a long time. :)
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