Heres the moon i sketched with a joint venture of NASA and the use of the Hubble telescope, the detail i have captured lets you see what to expect with NASA's vast budget this year
Very cool sketches. I admire the skills involved in doing this kind of work. Especially drawing in the dark with a red light. Looking at the pictures though it's always a interpretation of what's at the eyepiece on the night. The three renditions of M42 are different. Two different people will see different things. Different seeing/transparency conditions will also dictate what you can see. I like CCD imaging because it shows colors and true shapes. I don't think imaging is to blame for people expectations at the eye piece but clever marketing on telescope packaging showing color pictures of galaxies.
