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frank5817
Postmaster

Reged: 06/13/06

Loc: Illinois

Between Mare Insularum and Mare Cognitum
#5587223 - 12/24/12 01:16 PM Attachment (42 downloads)

This interesting region of the Moon is west of Fra Mauro and south of crater Lansberg.
The region was considered to be of great interest in the 1960’s which is why three space crafts landed here: Surveyor 3, Apollo 12 and Apollo 14. The region I sketched is south and west of all three.
My attention was captured by sunlight reflecting across all the peaks of the Riphaeus mountains on the terminator and the fine dome number 447 on Charles A. Kapral’s Lunar Dome Chart marked and visible at the upper left of the sketch.

Sketching:

For this sketch I used: black Canson paper (8” x 10”), white and black pastel pencils, assorted erasers, and blending stumps
Telescope: 13.1” f/6 Dobsonian working at 222X (9mm ocular)
Date: 12-23-2012 01:00-02:30 UT Temperature: -5°C (23°F)
Partly cloudy,
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude 27 °
Lunation 9.68 days
Illumination 76.3%
Altitude 60 °

Frank McCabe

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niteskystargazer
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 10/05/09

Loc: 41-43'-28" N 87-42'-39" W

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[Re: frank5817]
#5587255 - 12/24/12 01:36 PM

Frank,

Fine sketch of Mare Insularum & Mare Cognitum

.

CS,KLU,

,

Tom

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Chopin
Canis Insanus

Reged: 02/03/05

Loc: In the doghouse.

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[Re: niteskystargazer]
#5587269 - 12/24/12 01:45 PM

Frank, you do a marvelous job of capturing the 3-D effect of the topography as it's influenced by the oblique angle of sunlight. BTW, I love the scattering of bright peaks that are peeking out of the shadows in the lower right of the frame. That is what typically catches my eye when scanning for subjects on the lunar surface.

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Asbytec
Guy in a furry hat

Reged: 08/08/07

Loc: La Union, PI

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[Re: Chopin]
#5587722 - 12/24/12 08:28 PM

Frank, you always capture the moon well. The moon is quite beautiful, and you bring it home.

Last night, my family and I were observing the moon. There was a lot to capture our attention, too. Girlfriend's sister just would not back away from the eyepiece. That's okay, she was enjoying it. She had never seen the moon in such a way.

In fact, neither have I, really. Thought I saw some brown hue in Mare Imbrium.

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frank5817
Postmaster

Reged: 06/13/06

Loc: Illinois

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[Re: Asbytec]
#5587733 - 12/24/12 08:48 PM

Tom, Jason and Norme,

Thank you for the nice words guys. There are many great features to view on the Moon. I did observe other targets that night including Jupiter and the comet passing through Ursa Major (Linear 2012/KS). A clear night is a good night.

Frank

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JimPie
sage

Reged: 11/10/07

Loc: S.E.Michigan

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[Re: frank5817]
#5587801 - 12/24/12 10:00 PM

Frank, Very nice. The mountains really got my attention as well as the peaks catching light in the shadows.

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Jef De Wit
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 03/06/09

Loc: Hove, Belgium

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[Re: JimPie]
#5588125 - 12/25/12 06:19 AM

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frank5817
Postmaster

Reged: 06/13/06

Loc: Illinois

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[Re: Jef De Wit]
#5589508 - 12/26/12 11:12 AM

Jim and Jef,

Thanks a bunch.

Frank

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Tommy5
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 03/28/04

Loc: Chicagoland

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[Re: frank5817]
#5590501 - 12/26/12 11:21 PM

great sketch, nice details, thanks for sharing.

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Andrev
Carpal Tunnel

Reged: 02/08/11

Loc: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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[Re: Tommy5]
#5590531 - 12/26/12 11:38 PM

Frank.

Beautiful sketch. So much different tints used. Its impressive.

Andre.

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Uwe Pilz
scholastic sledgehammer

Reged: 05/16/08

Loc: Leipzig, Germany

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[Re: Andrev]
#5590589 - 12/27/12 12:30 AM

Again a great sketch. It is worth to give attention to the different shades of grey which you worked out very fine. Thankk you fro sharing.

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frank5817
Postmaster

Reged: 06/13/06

Loc: Illinois

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[Re: Uwe Pilz]
#5590642 - 12/27/12 01:23 AM

Tommy, Andre and Uwe,

Thanks you all. Sunday night was our last clear night and it was not too, too cold for sketching but below about -7 degrees C, I don't even try sketching anymore or else it looks like a sketch by an angry frozen person.