sketches of the moon

24th November 2005 - observational sketch/graphic of Trapezium in Orion's Nebulae

Sketched what I could see (roughly, no hand skills alas) with LED pen at telescope in bitter cold. Transferred to tracing paper then scanned in to computer and put into negative. Fuzzied the cloud up to look more like what I'd seen - but don't examine for accuracy ;-). Star positions reasonable


	Graphics of Mars during October 2005 when I hadn't figured out how to stack videos and when the markings were hard to pick out May need rotating - will check later	Most used a red circle on black background (the shading came accidentally ;-) ...) Yellow fuzz on the right used a photo of Mars with the dark bits sprayed on

At last - insomnia, clear bit of sky and a clearish head all came together for a binocular (10 x 50) sighting of the 17 day Moon, altitude about 20 degrees to the south. Seeing good. Eastern maria noticeably darker than those in the west. Even Grimaldi did not stand out as much, although Aristarchus was very bright. Mare Crisium cut in half, with the large craters Cleomedes and Endymion to the north. Interesting pale area prominent near the North Pole - possibly the brightness from crater Anaxagoras. A bright ray across Mare Serenitatis from Menelaus and at least three clear rays from Tycho, in the south - one seeming to skirt north of Maurolycos; one crossing the Mare Nubium to the west; and one heading south.

Observation record - 27th June 2005 around 0400 BST from UK

This is a record of an observation of a 20 day moon on 27-June-2005 at around 3.45 BST. Seeing was good though the sky was getting light. Made rough notes of what was visible through 10 x 50 binocs and then transferred it to a rough outline of the moon. Not an artistic record - just for reference as I couldn't get a photograph.

Blank Outline Map

Faint, simple outline map of the Moon if any of you wish to print it out to start to record your own observations. North is to the top, west to the left. Lines indicate rough quartering according to main moon maps.

(Cheers Patrick Moore and other map makers)

Attempts at Craters - made when the moon goes away for a while ...

	Not an artist but have had a go at sketching from some of the photographs I have taken. As the experts say, you get to know the surface of the Moon in much greater detail when you draw it .... and they are right! These are some early ones .
Attempts at: Schickard	Wargentin	Phocylides etc.	near the SW rim

A look at	Copernicus	at different times	and shadows