The Andromeda Galaxy & Companion Messier 32
August 11th, 2010
Location: Connecticut, USA (in an orange/red zone)
Drawn with black, grey, and white graphite colored pencil on white paper, with a black uni-ball pen for stars. Photographed with a Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and imported to Photoshop for inverting and touchups.
At time of drawing transparency was below average and so I really had to work hard to eke out any semblance of detail in M31. Aperture helped – I used a 203mm Newtonian for this drawing, even so, the one dust lane was only visible with averted vision. You may notice a strange lack of stars in the field, there are two reasons behind this: one is that too many stars become a distraction and two is that I generally only use them as reference points for my sketch.
Paul Schneider
Paul,
Another fine sketch like your recent M-8 rendering.
You certainly captured both M31 and M32 in beautiful fashion.
Frank 🙂