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January 2015 Winner: Roel
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Sketch by member Roel
On the evening of January 3 the skies finally cleared and my 3″ Polarex Unitron was quickly set up in the backyard. Crater Pythagoras on the northeastern limb of the Moon looked particularly nice – like a deep rocky bowl in the lunar surface. Seeing conditions were fair, so I pumped up the magnification to a crazy (for a 3″) 200x. It still gave a pleasant and sharp view and sketching was quite comfortable with the crater looking big in the eyepiece.
Pythagoras is a 130km wide impact crater with staggering 5km high terraced walls. The central peaks (I could see two of them) are also pretty huge: 3,5km high! Imagine the panoramic view from the top op one of those mountains….
Sketch made with a pastel pencil on black paper, through a 3″ Polarex Unitron at 200x (Baader 6mm BGO). The image is mirror reversed.
- Special Ed, mblack, Mr Magoo and 17 others like this
Unbelievable details. Looks like photograph. Congratulations.
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- BigC likes this
Congratulations Roel, on a very fine sketch of the lunar crater Pythagoras, and I believe you have tied with me for 4 wins over the mid-month photographers!
Mark
At first I thought it was a picture! What detail, and the shading has such a three dimensional look about it. Absolutely terrific.
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- Alan Grant likes this
Great sketch! Do you have other sketches we could see?
Superb!
That is truly outstanding!
Amazing details, great sketch!
That sketch made my jaw drop. Well done!
Awesome sketch !