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JanisR
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Re: Sketching at the EP....give it a try!!
08/08/08 10:24 AM
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Excellent thread.
All I could add is an echo of advice already given.
Sketching is fun, it's cheap, and it develops your brain's ability to perceive what your dark-adated eyes are seeing.
Okay, now for the boring stuff...
Your eyes are hard-wired to dark-adapt automatically, but your brain is *not*. It takes time to train your brain how to fully understand and process the new and unfamiliar data it's receiving under low-light conditions. (This is one reason for "beginner's frustration", where the observer is disappointed at what he cannot "see" with that new telescope. It may not be bad optics, or bad observing conditions - it may only be an inexperienced brain that's limiting the image.)
Sketching at the eyepiece forces the brain to work harder, since it must translate the incoming data into movement of hand and fingers to make the drawing. This is no simple task, but brains learn very quickly, so every new sketch attempted will be a little easier than the previous one was.
But it it takes time and patience, so give sketching a fair test, at least eight weeks, then go back and observe the first object you sketched again. My bet is you'll be saying to yourself "wow - how could I have missed *that*?" 
And even if you decide that sketching isn't your pleasure, you will still be able to enjoy the benefit of that trained brain of yours no matter how you do your observing.
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JanR
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