Sketching at the telescope: Comet Arend-Roland (C/1956 R1)

Posted by David Eicher
on Thursday, July 1, 2010
Comet Arend-Roland (C/1956 R1) sketched by Charles F. “Chick” Capen from a photograph taken April 26, 1957, showing the comet’s famous antitail. David J. Eicher library
We continue our series with a sketch by Charles F. “Chick” Capen showing the brilliant Comet Arend-Roland, as rendered from a photograph he took April 26, 1957.

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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