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Originally Posted by Paddy
Well done Michael. I haven't had the courage to attempt moon sketching yet, but it will come. I'm not sure why you're so coy about your M57. Looks good to me.
It is amazing, that first spotting of the GRS. And I reckon every subsequent one is just as good. And the moon transits also never lose their magic.
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Well, you could say my M57 is 100% accuarate to what I saw, which was nothing. I did not put pencil to paper to M57 itself, the 3 dots are the stars where I was looking.
The moon can look overwhelming when you first look at sketching it. The trick to getting started is focus on the big structures first and don't try to do too much.
e.g. Pick a crater and start with just its basic outline shape. Very rarely is this going to be a circle. From there you can start adding details, again the biggest things first. Nearby smaller craters, a central peak, shadows around the crater wall etc. The longer you look and draw the more detail you get onto the paper.
One of the things I find very hard is getting different levels of shading.