M51, M63 (sketched), M94, M3 (sketched) and M53

Excellent work there.
M3 is great!

Very nice Jey, M63 is instantly recognisable.
Have you considered getting a higher power view of M3?

Dave --

I do view globs at higher power (up to 330x in this case), but it's too tedious to sketch at those powers. There are about 75 "placed" stars in that sketch (including the brighter ones inside the cluster), while the rest of the cluser stars are random to approximate what I was seeing. At 330x I think I'd need to place closer to 250 stars since the outside regions would be more resolved and spread out.

Still, I should try it some day....

-- Jeff.

Visually Jeff nothing will ever beat the luminious range
our eyes coupled to our brain has,and you have demonstrated
that again in that beautiful representation of m63.Excellent
observing and sketching well done.I take it your happy with
the new piece of glass :lol:

Declan --

Yeah, the new OTA rocks. I'm quite pleased.

-- Jeff.

Very nice reports and sketches.