Joe's Luna scribbles

[josefk]

This is a ~25% illuminated 4.8 days old crescent moon sketched sitting in the lovely Burghley House deer park.

Sketched between 21:00 and 21:45 in a bit of a race as lovely soft twilight details hardened into high contrast black and white details as darkness came.

Fracastorius with Fracastorius D sitting on its nightside rim looked fantastic (if i've identified it properly).

A great pity it was a "school night" as it looked like seeing was going to be fantastic. Even bright Venus looked sharp and clear in my little bird spotting scope; ultra clear phase and only a little bit of glare and prismatic colour.

[JeremyS]

Love it 👍🏻

[maw lod qan]

If that is your scribbles, i cant wait to see you get serious!

Awesome!

[josefk]

Thank you @maw lod qan. I would like to transition from impressionistic scribbling to somehow accurate recording but TBH it's not easy and probably not even possible for my skill level - the moonscape changes too fast when trying to capture all of it. I'm actually quite shocked at just how fast it changes - especially at this twilight transition.

[Knighty2112]

Excellent sketch! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[josefk]

I'm attempting to get into some detail here - the breakout detail is at x303 and about 5' wide. It's only my second Luna sketch at decent magnification and through a diagonal though and i found the diagonal quite disorientating. I also forgot to take an atlas out last night and this morning i can't for the life of me pin the breakout region down - i thought i knew roughly where this is but on flat light lunar pics i can't find anything likely. It was eye-catching at the scope - i must have a vivid imagination but this feature put me in mind of a deers head and the next feature to it's right put me in mind of a fox looking the other way. If anyone recognises it (hahaha) i would be very happy to be enlightened.

 

 

[N3ptune]

On 25/05/2023 at 02:38, josefk said:

This is a ~25% illuminated 4.8 days old crescent moon sketched sitting in the lovely Burghley House deer park.

Sketched between 21:00 and 21:45 in a bit of a race as lovely soft twilight details hardened into high contrast black and white details as darkness came.

Fracastorius with Fracastorius D sitting on its nightside rim looked fantastic (if i've identified it properly).

A great pity it was a "school night" as it looked like seeing was going to be fantastic. Even bright Venus looked sharp and clear in my little bird spotting scope; ultra clear phase and only a little bit of glare and prismatic colour.

You did it in 45 mins, it's amazing if you can produce something very good looking like this in so little time 👍. It's often a "Work night" for me too when the seeing and transparency are premium

I like this sketch with the lovely earth shine.

Thanks for sharing.

[Sunshine]

I love your sketch!

[josefk]

thanks both @N3ptune and @Sunshine - it's a completely new side of the hobby for me to be interested in the moon. Till this year I've always positioned myself with my back to it cursing it's illumination! Hah! 

[josefk]

Well that's a weight off - good old https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5048

[Naughty Neal]

As I found with my basic  Sun sketch yesterday, sketching any celestial body isn't easy .   Moving from viewing to sketching and then re focusing , one finds detail missed and then getting proportion correct not ver easy.

45mins I agree pretty amazing results.

Edited May 30, 2023 by Naughty Neal