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Craters Babbage, Harpalus, and South


Craters Babbage, Harpalus, and South

Sketching: For this sketch I used: a small 7”x 7” piece of black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils. Brightness and contrast slightly increased after scanning Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian with 6mm eyepiece (241x) Date: 6-5-2009 2:15-2:45 UT Temperature: 14°C (57°F) Clear, calm Seeing: Antoniadi III Colongitude 54.6 degrees Lunation 11.6 days Illumination 93% Oak Forest, Illinois Frank McCabe



    Utterly beautiful Frank!
    Rich, This was a quick sketch. Thank you for your kind words. Frank :)



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