Your best 2016 moon /dso sketch

[todd8137]

  Hi all what a great sketching year its been for me and sketching i would be interested to see your best or worst moon /dso sketch  heres what i think is mine lets see yours and have a great chrismas and new year 

[John]

I don't sketch other than to confirm relative postions of things but both the above are superb to my eyes - they really capture these beautiful subjects under excellent conditions

The 3D effect you have caught on the lunar surface is remarkable

 

[laudropb]

Very nice sketches. 

[todd8137]

14 hours ago, John said:

I don't sketch other than to confirm relative postions of things but both the above are superb to my eyes - they really capture these beautiful subjects under excellent conditions

The 3D effect you have caught on the lunar surface is remarkable

 

Thanks for your kind comments  the moon as caught my eye since i started its always around and it never looks the same ,the reason i sketchd from day one is because you look for,longer at what ever it is a dso or the moon ,before i would spend five minutes looking at as many things as i could but never realy looked for,long enough have a great xmass and new year 

I was t going for a 3D effect at the time with the moon surface but when i saw those shadows bing cast by those mountains wow i could not belive how great they looked .

pat

 

 

[mikeDnight]

20 hours ago, todd8137 said:

  Hi all what a great sketching year its been for me and sketching i would be interested to see your best or worst moon /dso sketch  heres what i think is mine lets see yours and have a great chrismas and new year 

Spectacular sketches Todd.

The Alpine Valley is excellent but M13 is jaw dropping! 

Sadly I've hardly paid any attention to sketching dso's or the Moon this year as I've been preoccupied with the planet's, mainly Jupiter and Mars. In 2016 I've only drawn a couple of dso's and one lunar crater. (Attached)

Only the other day I found an old sketch published by the SPA lunar section years ago which you may find of interest. I've attached it here also as it shows a feature, a rill in this instance, that some experts claimed didn't exist, but it most certainly does, and is easily seen under the right illumination even in a 3" telescope. 

This coming year I'm determined to make the moon my main subject of study as although i regularly observe it, its something i rarely sketch.

Mike

 

[JeremyS]

Wonderful sketches Pat and Mike. Thanks for sharing.

Jeremy

[niallk]

Fantastic sketches Todd + Mike! Really wonderful skill 

[todd8137]

Hi Mike great sketches the moon is some what a obsession of mine well for the last 11 years i would say imlove dso's,but the moon and its shadows just blow me away every time i look forward to some of you sketches i the new year great dso,sketches by the way i look forward ro more of you work 

pat 

[Richard Hather]

Beautiful sketches Todd and Mike I started my journey into the cosmos last march with the purchase of my first telescope and it's been a very inspiring humbling and beautifully emotional journey for me so far here are a couple of my favourite sketches ☺

Richard

 

 

 

 

 

[todd8137]

Hi Richard

    They are some  great sketches hope to see more of yor work 

pat 

[mikeDnight]

Great stuff!  

Very realistic sketches and a pleasure to look at. To say you haven't been observing long they are excellent!

Mike 

[mariosi]

Hello Todd, Mike, Richard, wonderful sketches 

 

Lunar Crater Clavius souvenir from  the moon(only moon sketch in 2016) and my last observation(4/12/16) it was H-a line of the sun.

Merry Christmas and Happy new year 

Marios 

 

 

[todd8137]

Loving the sun sketch 

[mikeDnight]

I'll just squeeze this one in before 2016 runs out! 

M42 on 27/12/16

 

[Richard Hather]

On 26/12/2016 at 07:00, mariosi said:

Hello Todd, Mike, Richard, wonderful sketches 

 

Lunar Crater Clavius souvenir from  the moon(only moon sketch in 2016) and my last observation(4/12/16) it was H-a line of the sun.

Merry Christmas and Happy new year 

Marios 

 

 

Lovely sketches as always Marios, let's hope we have another great year of astronomy can't wait ?

[Richard Hather]

7 hours ago, mikeDnight said:

I'll just squeeze this one in before 2016 runs out! 

M42 on 27/12/16

 

Wow Mike what can I say stunningly beautiful loving the structure of the nebula from the middle and how it almost fans out one of the best I've seen good job ?

Richard

[mikeDnight]

Thanks Richard! ☺

The night wasn't good and I almost gave up on the sketch part way through. I wasn't even sure whether I should bother posting it on the forum, but its been received kindly so it must have been the right thing to do.

Mike.