The Moon Near First Quarter
Sketch and Details by Frank McCabe
Near Last Quarter
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils, white Conte’ crayon and a blending stump. Brightness was reduced by a value of -4 (using Microsoft OfficePicture Manager) after scanning.
Telescope: 4.25 inch f/ 5 Dobsonian and 21mm eyepiece 26x
Date: 11-19-2008 12:20-13:30 UT
Temperature: -2° C (28° F)
Partly cloudy, light winds
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude: 168.7 °
Lunation: 21.6 days
Illumination: 53.9 %
First and Last Quarters
Sketch and Details by Frank McCabe
Combined sketches
These two sketches were made during lunation (number 1062). The first one on the left was sketched just before first quarter (11-6-08) and appeared here November 22, 2008. The second sketch on the right, made just before last quarter and is the sketch above. Both were sketched on separate pieces of paper but were combined electronically on a black background after scanning.
Frank McCabe
Frank that is just fantastic :0)
Dale
Dale,
Thank you. A little luck and brief clearing before our current deep freeze got me out to sketch.
Frank