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I somehow feel that my observing sessions just aren't complete if I don't sketch at least one object per observing session.

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Although new to the sketching side of things I have to agree. It's also a way to record visually, it's much better and/or easier to "show" somebody what you saw than tell then, it get's your point across. I use my sketches as my background on my computer at work (about 1 a week) and I always get asked about the subject in question and I enjoy explaining how came about drawing the image. For the most part, people seem interested when I explain. The second reason I like to sketch, it's not as expensive as AP and the learning curve is a whole lot LESS than AP, although, there is a learning curve to sketching I don't think is is no where near the learning curve to AP, I'm lucky if I get a good pic of the moon out of 10 taken

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Orion XT8I
Celestron 114EQ Firstscope
Meade 70mm
Astroscan

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