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Tiny sketch of waxing crescent moon with star 105 Tau


acr_astro

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Dear all,

yesterday evening I did a tiny sketch of the waxing crescent moon. While observing, I detected a star half a lunar diameter away from the lunar north pole. I looked it up and identified it as 105 Tau.

At the beginning of the sketch at 0900 CEST, the earth shine was not visible yet. But during sketching it appeared.

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Telescope: TS 70/420 ED

Eyepiece: ES 6.7mm/82°

Date and Time: April 26th, 2020 / 2100-2200 CEST

Location: Home terrace, Dusseldorf region, Germany

Technique: Koh-I-Noor chalk, charcoal and whitecoal pens on black sketching paper

Size: diameter 2.5"


Clear skies!
Achim 

 

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Very nicely executed.  Please don't take this the wrong way but as one who could never produce such a fine rendering do you aim of accuracy or an artistic result or something inbetween? 

Regards Andrew 

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Hi Andrew, 

don't worry, I don't take it personally.

The aim is to catch the craters as they are but with a diameter of max 6 cm and chalk and charcoal pens there's always room for improvement  ;)

So it can be at best similar to what you see in the eyepiece - depending on your eyes as well!

Clear skies 

Achim :)

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