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Sketching at the telescope: Chris Schur’s Witch Head Nebula

Sketching at the telescope: Chris Schur’s Witch Head Nebula

on Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) sketched by Chris Schur using a 12-inch f/5 reflector at 48x, February 1987. David J. Eicher library

Today’s installment from a newly found cache of astronomical drawings (which had resided in a box in my basement for the past 20 years) features a sketch made by well-known Arizona astroimager and observer Chris Schur. It shows the faint nebula IC 2118, called the Witch Head Nebula, in Eridanus.

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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