Mars 01/19/2023

Sketching Materials and Equipment
For this sketch I used color pencil dust applied with a blending stump, graphite HB pencil, eraser, white copy paper, Gimp2 to cut the sketch and move to a black background. Seeing 3/5, transparency 4/5.
Telescope 16” f/4.41 8mm eyepiece 224x with barlow 448x, filter used neodymium and single polarizing filters to slightly increase contrast. Scope on an equatorial platform.
Frank McCabe