Waning Crescent Moon in Early Twilight
I was up early on this morning getting a look at some of the winter stars and witnessed a beautiful 25 day old waning moon. The earthshine was poor but after a look through a small Newtonian scope I decided to make a quick 40 minute sketch. It was a fine view.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used black construction paper 9″ x 12″, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils, blending stumps, a gum eraser and brush. Brightness was slightly increased (+1) using the scanner
Scope 2.5” f/10 Newtonian scope at 25x
Date: 9-4-2010, 10:00-10:40 UT
Temperature: 16° C (60° F)
clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude: 220.2 °
Lunation: 25.3 days
Illumination: 22.1% Waning Crescent
Frank McCabe
Frank
A very interesting perspective of the moon.
I seem to get the impression it is a huge wall sized artwork hanging in a gallery for some reason.
Just needs some figures standing at the bottom looking up.
Scott.
Scott,
Thank you. Always a pleasure to spot old Luna in the sky day or night.
Frank 🙂