Sketching at the telescope: Venus in color

on Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Venus sketched by Richard Baum with a 7.62cm scope at 120x, April 3, 1953, 18:30 UT, from Chester, England. David J. Eicher library

I wrote the first of a big series of blogs the other day following my discovery of a cache of sketches I had stowed away in my basement and that remained untouched for 20 years. I am going to keep dribbling these out because there are lots of interesting drawings of the cosmos in the collection, and they should remind you that you, too, can easily record what you see on paper. Here is a drawing of Venus as seen by English observer Richard Baum. Richard added notes: “Dark side visible, markedly darker than sky and tinged reddish. Cusps thin and attenuated, broken into tiny beads by unsteady air.”

To learn more about astronomical sketching, Astronomy magazine subscribers can access my Astronomy.com video "Sketching from the telescope" and read Glenn Chaple's Observing Basics column "Sketching 101."

See the rest of the Sketching at the telescope series.

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