Friday, July 30, 2004

Hevelius and Pythagoras

Conditions:
Clear, fair seeing

Targets Observed:
Regions of Hevelius and Pythagoras

Notes
Two targets on the moon for my first try at sketching lunar features. These are on the far western edge, with the moon waxing gibbous at 93%, they are very elongated structures.

Hevelius is in a region with some lovely sights tonight. To it's immediate north is Cavalerius, a crater which got my bets rendering of the night. Hevelius' twin peaked mountain was plain to see and as I was sketching them, the sun broke across the far western wall of Grimaldi just to the south.

In the north west quadrant lay Pythagoras, encircled with smaller craters and part of the Sinus Iridum. Half of dark Plato was in my chosen field of view as well. Drawing the craters here was like sketching an open cluster.

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