Mirach and its Ghost NGC 404

Sketching Date and Time: 8-31-2008, 5:10-5:40 UT Scope: 18” f/5 Dobsonian. 175x 8”x11” white recycled sketching paper, 4B soft charcoal pencil, HB hard charcoal pencil, blending stump, eraser shield, drawing re-sketched indoors because of much smudging, scanned and inverted, some star magnitude adjustments made after scanning using Microsoft Paint. Seeing: Pickering 7/10 Transparency: Above Average 4/5 Nelm: 4.8 Frank McCabe