Solar sketches from the last 2 weeks

Finally got around to updating my website so I can post these sketches here.

I was experimenting with larger paper and different pencils. These are all done with Derwent GraphiTint pencils on black Artagain paper. The larger scale allows for much more detailed sketches, but they also take longer. Coupled with dodging the clouds, most of these aren't sequences.





Here's one where I did manage a couple of frames. (This is the one Deirdre alerted us all to in her "Christmas Tree" thread, although it quickly morphed into more of a Jules Verne rocket-ship.)



So for the next one, I also saved room on the paper for a second frame. As you can see, it didn't work out so well.



That might have had something to do with the Solarscope SF70 filter arriving on my doorstep around noon. The next day I was able to do a few with the new filter:





I was writing a short review of the SF70 for CloudyNights, so I also did the same prom at the same time through the SolarMax 40 for a comparison:



And, finally, a couple as I get used to the SF70:





The last shows the more abbreviated equipment list I'm trying out as I felt there was getting to be too much text on the sketch.

Cheers,
-- Jeff.

Zip-a-dee Do Da Jeff !!!, take a bow, take several.
Excellent set of hot sketches ye got there, isn't the sun amazing !!!
It great to have a place for sketches on this forum, thanks whoever done it.

"The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do."
Galileo Galilei

:shock:

Deirdre Kelleghan
Irish Astronomical Society
www.deirdrekelleghan.com

Excellent sketches Jeff.
Loads of fine detail in them proms.

Superb Jeff.

Just one question - did you use the SolarMax 40 to sketch the "rest of the day" image?

Jeff,

Thats an impressive set of sketches. The details within the Proms is very good.

Well done!

Eamonn A
MPC J62
www.kingslandobservatory.com

Thanks Dee, Michael, Dave and Eamonn!

No, Dave, the "rest-of-day" sketch was done through one of my unit-power "window pane" scopes. I've got a bunch of them around here.

Cheers,
-- Jeff.