Jupiter-Neptune Conjunction
Sketch and Details by Jeff Young
This pairing nearly got the better of me: I forgot all about it on Sunday night and Monday evening started out cloudy. However, it cleared at about 7pm and I headed out to the observatory — only to find the pair behind clouds again by the time I had the scope pointed. But I stuck at it, and the clouds cleared just as the pair started to set. (In fact, the sketch was done looking through the empty branches of a tree on my horizon.)
HB pencil on 150gsm cartridge paper. Sketched through a 16” Mak-Cass at 110X from County Louth, Ireland. Scanned and inverted and colourized in Photoshop.
— Jeff.
Jeff,
Excellent color drawing of the Jupiter and Neptune conjunction.
Frank 🙂
Jeff,
Inspirational work, and as you know it did indeed inspire me to observe a very similar scene on the following evening, thank you.
Dale 🙂