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The Great Peninsula and Adjacent Sea


The Great Peninsula and Adjacent Sea

Sketching: For this sketch I used: black Canson paper 9”x 13”, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils , and Conte’ crayons, a blending stump, plastic eraser. Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian with 6mm (241x) eyepiece Date: 10-11-2009 9:30-11:30 UT Temperature: -3°C (27°F) Clear becoming mostly cloudy, calm Seeing: Antoniadi II and briefly I Co longitude 182° Lunation 22.7 days Illumination 49.4% Oak Forest, Illinois Frank McCabe






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