2018-08-22 - Moon: Mt-Harbinger, Krieger and Prinz

[N3ptune]

Hi! I am just back from a nice observation mainly of the moon but with a few other objects too. My observations led me to a collection of mountains and 2 craters, Mt-Harbinger, Krieger crater and Prinz crater, it's very close to the Schroter's valley. It took 30 seconds to select the sketching target, I liked these mountains and crater instantly.

My sketch was done with my 200mm Newtonian, inverted image, and the eyepiece was a HD-OR 6mm 167x, the most I could get. I also used my new #15 Yellow-Amber filter which was of good help to dim down the light and well, helped my eye a lot with the task. 

Thanks for looking!

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[BRADLEY 1953]

Nice work  Neptune, I think lunar sketches are the most difficult of all, there is just so much detail to take in.  Chris.

[N3ptune]

Thanks Bradley, I find the moon to be a good place to practice. Next time, I want to try to put more contrast, more strength on the pencils to get darker shades.

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely done, the Moon is a wonderful target for all fields and levela of astronomy.

[mariosi]

Very nice souvenir. Lovely done!

Marios