Kepler to Marius

19:10UT - 20:00 UT
02/11/06

Conte Crayons
Conte Pastel Pencils
Prismelo Water Colour Pencil Black
300gm Daler Rowney Paper
Sky Watcher 200mm
8mm TVP eyepiece
Bray Co Wicklow Ireland
Humidity 90%Temp 3C
Lat: 53:11:44N (53.1955) Lon: 6:06:31W (-6.1086)
Seeing 2
Transparency Average

Kepler- The dark background of Oceanus Procellarum is a focus of bright rays radiating from two main centres - crater Kepler, which dominates this area and crater Copernicus in the east.
Named after Johannes Kepler a German astronomer and ingenious theoretician.

Marius - The western part of Oceanus Procellarum, poor in large craters, but very rich in lunar domes, especially near crater Marius- Named after Simon Mayer a German astronomer who independently discovered Jupiter's satellites.

- from Concise Moon Mars and Venus by Rukl

I was so taken by trying to sketch the moon in lunar greys, that last night I had to have another go:-)

Kepler to Marius looked just great to me so mind made up got started. It was freezing here in Bray, but now and then the slight wobble between me and the moon settled and the clarity was wonderful.
Well as wonderful as it gets here, we never get perfect seeing:-( I did mix up my grey's in the dark, have to get a bigger red light,or maybe soft candle light.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society
www.irishastrosoc.org

wow very nice work well done