From Sirsalis to Damoiseau

 This was the first time that I had used my new (to me) Superscopes 6″ F9 triplet
refractor for a sketch. As per usual I sketch what my eye is most drawn to and
then research the area after.

   In this case I struggled to match up the craters that I had captured with any of
my many books & atlases. In the end I got a best match from an excellent free
down load picture Atlas/portfolio by Alan Chu. I decided that it must be the
Sirsalis region although the stunning illumination I enjoyed wasn’t captured in
any thing that I had in my library.

 I used the following:
  Superscopes 150mm F9 triplet refractor, Denk binoviewer with 2.5x lens, 2x 23mm
  Celestron Axiom eyepieces straight through so no diagonal delivering 146x.
  
  6″x8″ (150mm x 200mm) light black card of unknown origin
  Derwent watercolour pencils, Derwent pastel pencils, conte sticks & blending stumps
  
  25.8.07, 21.30UT sketch time 10minutes.
  
  Location: Chippingdale observatory, Chipping Nr Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England.

Dale Holt