Venus at dawn 22/04/17

[johnfosteruk]

I was up at 5 today to get some lunar and solar, maybe a little Venus, Mercury and Saturn too. But despite the good forecast it was cloudy. 

I did get a 10 minute gap on Venus though and although the seeing was poor I got a sketch done. It was that wobbly that what little detail was there was totally indiscernible so the sketch does nothing but record the phase.

9b pencil, blending stump and putty eraser on my decent sketchpad. A little tidy up in Photoshop after scanning and a colourised version as well for fun..

[laudropb]

Very nice John. Wish I had got up early. Lovely blue sky at 8:30. so set up for some WL solar. Very interesting looking ARs but as I was sketching the clouds rolled in. Now 75% cloud cover.

[mikeDnight]

That's still a lovely sketch despite no shadings being seen John. 

Mike

[Richard Hather]

Lovely sketch John I've never observed Venus myself but your sketches inspire me to do so ?

Clear skies ??✨???

Richard

[johnfosteruk]

Thanks chaps, you're too kind.