Astro sketch site.

[Mick]

Found this site while looking for home made bino mounts and though some of you maybe interested. It has some wonderful sketches and paintings of planets and comets. I especially like the Jupiter-SL9 sketches. :)

http://www.rangeweb.net/~sketcher/index.html

[sheeny]

Cool! :thumbsup: I'm pretty slack myself... maybe done half a dozen sketches (and not necessarily very good!:P ) in quite a few years observing, but I appreciate those with the patience to do it.

"To sketch is to see" is very true! When teaching people to learn to track, I get students to describe what they see to a fellow student... if they can convince someone else that what they see is "sign" then it probably is! The other exercise I get students to do is to describe a footprint (complete or partial) to someone else verbally, and the second person has to draw it. It works surprisingly well!

Al.

[astro_south]

good find Mick

here is another site I have checked out in the past....

http://members.aol.com/billferris/

and in particular....
http://members.aol.com/billferris/deepsky.html
http://members.aol.com/billferris/planetary.html
http://members.aol.com/billferris/sketch.html