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A Summer double effort (13/05/2024)


SwiMatt

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It's basically summer here, meaning that the only thing I can currently observe without destroying my sleep pattern is sunlight - either direct or reflected. So yesterday afternoon I enjoyed a good time under the Sun and sketched the whole disk with all its activity - 9 active regions! Here's the page from my sketch-/logbook:

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In the evening I looked back at the Moon for the first time in a month or so, and found that my sketching skills got very rusty! I'm not very happy of the final result for this one, but it was a valiant effort on my part given how tired I was this weekend. I sketched Crater Gutenberg and some of the area surrounding it - at 200x. Like always, I don't pick my targets before being out, I prefer to let myself like something: I was captivated by the ear-like shape of the formation, and the dome/hill laying just further down along the terminator. This sketch was not as finished as I would have liked, but tiredness came over me and sketching at 200x with manual controls is a busy matter.

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Great sketches. I love sketching the sun. No dark adaptation or fiddling about trying to see with a red torch. Mind you, I still like to sketch clusters and doubles. 

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7 hours ago, YogSothoth said:

Great sketches. I love sketching the sun. No dark adaptation or fiddling about trying to see with a red torch. Mind you, I still like to sketch clusters and doubles. 

The problem is that I'm losing the habit to sketch when it's dark. The other day I was getting frustrated sketching the Moon at dusk, because I couldn't see the paper. It took me a minute to realize that it was getting dark and I wasn't using a light 🤣

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