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Sketching at the telescope: Richard Baum’s Mars

Sketching at the telescope: Richard Baum’s Mars

on Thursday, June 10, 2010

Mars sketched by Richard Baum with a 4.5-inch scope at 186x, June 18, 1984, from 21h30m to 24h UT. David J. Eicher library

This “sketching at the telescope” edition features a sketch by Richard Baum of Chester, England, showing the Red Planet. The area shown covers Amazonis to Elysium. The white spot in the center “may have been Olympica,” according to Baum. The north polar cap was noted as being quite small.

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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