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Sketching at the telescope: Jeff Medkeff’s Orion Nebula

Sketching at the telescope: Jeff Medkeff’s Orion Nebula

on Monday, May 10, 2010

The Orion Nebula (M42) sketched by Jeff Medkeff with a 4.5-inch f/7 reflector, December 29, 1981. David J. Eicher library

Today’s sketch is one made by a good friend of the magazine whom we unfortunately lost way too early, in 2008. Jeff Medkeff was an enthusiastic astronomy writer, photographer, computer programmer, educator, and asteroid hunter who made some drawings of astronomical objects and sent them to me some years ago. Jeff’s drawing of the Orion Nebula (M42) shows the intricate detail in the brightest portions of the nebula. His one simple comment that accompanied this sketch was “Wow!”

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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