Plato at Sunrise

Sketching Materials and Equipment:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper sketch book, white and black Conte’ pastel pencils and a blending stump.
Telescope: 10 inch f/ 5.7 Dobsonian and 9 mm eyepiece 161x and an equatorial platform
Date: 10-07-2019, 1:50 – 2:40 UT
Temperature: 26° C (78° F)
clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude: 6.7 °
Lunation: 8.02 days
Illumination: 60.9 %
Frank McCabe