[Paddy (Patrick)]

Well, still very much at the bottom of the learning curve with sketching, here is M83 from recent observing. My scanner seemed to have left off the fainter shades of pencil, so I've added them with GIMP, as well as inverting the colours. It still looks better on paper than on the scan and I'm not sure how to address this. Oh, magnification was 135x. I had done a sketch at 175x a couple of nights before, but the sketching seemed better at lower power. I have to say sketching at the eyepiece is challenging enough for me at the best of times, but this was near zenith so I was grappling with Dobson's hole, pencils, eraser, reading glasses and light two steps up my ladder. Seeing was good though!

As usual, any feedback most welcome.