I concentrated first on the craters Catharina, Cyrillus, and Theophilus with strained conditions of wind at the drawing table but the shadowed effects were spectacular so I had to persevere. Then Mare Serenitatis with it shadowed ridges. I just learned from checking my moon charts that Apollo 17 landed there in 1972 at the eastern most corner of the mare.
The whole moon image was sketched in as naked eye rather than inverted through the telescope.
Other surrounding details were roughly added. A close-up landscape was decided lastly today.
Telescope used: 10.1" Coulter f/4.5 Newtonian with 32mm plossl and 9.7mm plossl
Seeing was at first medium 6~7/10 with light wind at 10PM PDT June 27th improving to 8~ 9/10 by midnight June 28th.
Stonehenge black pastel paper 22" X 30" with various pastels and Conte hard white chalk.
Mark
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My CN Gallery
*Edited- I re-photographed the image a few days ago to elliminate the over color caused from north daylight- Mark