Herodotus Aristarchus Vallis Shroter

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03/11/06
18:00UT - 18:40 UT

Conte Crayons
Conte Pastel Pencils
Prismelo Water Colour Pencil Black and White
300gm Daler Rowney Paper
Sky Watcher 200mm
Focal Length 1200 mm
8mm TVP eyepiece
Bray Co Wicklow Ireland
Humidity 90%Temp 2C
Lat: 53:11:44N (53.1955) Lon: 6:06:31W (-6.1086)
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Exceptionally interesting features can be observed in this part of Oceanus Procellarum, these include Schroter's Valley - the largest sinuous valley -cleft on the Moon, named after German selenographer Schroter, the valley is 200 km in length.
Aristarchus - an exceptionally bright crater, named after a Greek astronomer
Herodotus named after a Greek historian " father of history" -- Rukl

I am enjoying my little adventure in grey's on black, these features looked so interesting. Every now and then I could see just a little bit more of this wonderful area. I look forward to trying again to capture this valley in more detail soon.

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society
www.irishastrosoc.org

Dee,

I'm intrigued by your ability to capture such subtle detail on paper... or at least create a very pleasing result. What size are your original drawings and how do you manage to scale from eyepiece to paper? On the few times I've tried my hand drawing at the eyepiece, the results have been awful... but then I never was an artist!

Beautiful.

Philip

Great Stuff Dee

Keep an eye out on this area of the moon also for Transient Lunar Phenomenon, Aristarchus and schroter valley are renowned for it.

for comparison here is a link to a pic I took, afocally through the dob of the same area about a week or so ago.

www.framecommunications.com/images/aristarchus.jpg

Thanks, Philip and Trevor, this drawing is about 6inches X 6inches in total,the main detail being just about 2inches X 2inches.Its not really scaled up at all, just more or less how I see it through my telescope.

I have not tried to draw the features larger than they appear yet, as I am still finding my way with Conte crayons and other interesting media.
It is quite a different approach for me than pencil on white, and it is difficult to distinguish the Conte grey's in the dark.Red light does not do anything for grey:-)

Deirdre

Dee,
That looks wonderful, almost photographic!

Dee,

Having just checked out the Conte crayon range in Dargle Stationers in Bray, I admire your results even more! For those not familliar with them, they are short sruare rods of unsheathed crayon that are remarkably soft and don't hold an edge, so you're always working with a blunt end! How you achieve such good results is a mystery - Hats off! You've inspired me to give it a try, though I won't promice to post any of my efforts up... to spare my blushes! I'm going to stick to pencil and paper for now.

Phil.