Jupiter Sketches

[Siegfried1969]

Sketches of Jupiter, made last month

[dweller25]

Great drawings 👍

[Alan White]

Nice to see someone sketching and taking time to observe 👍
 

[Siegfried1969]

Thanks ! Indeed, sketching is the best method to improve one's observing skills.

For those who can read French, I can definitely recommend the two books "Astrodessin I and II" which are the standard reference for astronomic sketching. Unfortunately, there is no English edition available.

[Alan White]

@Siegfried1969 thank you for the pointer to the books, sadly I do not read French well so a book is a challenge to say the least.

One question for you if I may, are you using a driven or manual mount?

[Siegfried1969]

1 minute ago, Alan White said:

@Siegfried1969 thank you for the pointer to the books, sadly I do not read French well so a book is a challenge to say the least.

One question for you if I may, are you using a driven or manual mount?

Hi Alan,

I am using a manual equatorial mount. But I ensure it is polar aligned fairly well. I use the daytime polar alignment app for that. This way I just have to push the tube a bit further to get the object back into view. My telescope is a very old Russian TAL 4 inch newtonian and it has not so many features but the optical quality is excellent and its built like a tank.