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Eastern Mare Imbrium


Eastern Mare Imbrium

Sketching and Equipment:
For this sketch, I used black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper 9” x 12”, white and
black Conte’ pastel pencils and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 13 and 9 mm eyepieces (111x, 161x) riding on an equatorial platform
Date: from 11-25-2017; 23:15 - 10:15- 11:45 U.T.
Temperature: 4° C (40° F)
Clear, breezy
Seeing: Below average - Antoniadi IV
Transparency 4/5
Colongitude 350°
Lunation 6.7 days
Illumination 36 %

Frank McCabe






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