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rolandlinda3
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A quickee-Mel111 with 8x56
      #2998646 - 03/22/09 05:54 PM Attachment (44 downloads)

Nice night, tired, but who can resist a nice sky.

Roland


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Re: A quickee-Mel111 with 8x56 new [Re: rolandlinda3]
      #2998931 - 03/22/09 08:49 PM

Roland,

Very nicely done. If those binoculars were just a bit larger we would be looking at galaxies in this field sketch too. I like the color of your frame.

Frank


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Re: A quickee-Mel111 with 8x56 new [Re: frank5817]
      #2999247 - 03/23/09 12:06 AM

Nice sketch, Roland! I really like the layout!

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Re: A quickee-Mel111 with 8x56 new [Re: cildarith]
      #2999486 - 03/23/09 05:58 AM

Roland,

A beautiful and accurate observation of Melotte 111 (Coma Berenices Cluster). This is a striking open cluster. Thank you for sharing it with us all.

Links;
http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/maps/com/com_1.gif (just south of Gamma Coma Berenices)
http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/ngc/mel111.html
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/ngc/mel111_more.html
http://www.glagola.darkhorizons.org/astroweb/comacluster.html

Carlos


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Re: A quickee-Mel111 with 8x56 new [Re: CarlosEH]
      #2999964 - 03/23/09 12:29 PM

Gotta confession to make on the color of the frame: this was a pencil sketch cut out and laid on a pastel blue paper. Then I inverted the sketch to get the white on black. The odd but nice looking brown is the inverted color (according to photoshop elements) of the pastel blue. I thought it was so interesting, I did not mess with it.

Thanks for the comments. It was a fun time.

Roland


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