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Sol Robbin's Bands on the Run.
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Sol Robbin's sees things differently!
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For amateur observers, Jupiter knows no rival for the title of "The King of the Solar System".
Due to its ten-hour day and 440,000km girth, corriolus forces on the planet are terrific - terrific for spawning a wealth of fine detail. How much detail? Check out Sol's sketches...
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Sol Robbin's Ringed Wonder!
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Sol Robbin's has the lobes!
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No these aren't jeff's "scratches" but Sol Robbin's Sketches. It's amazing that anywone
using a 6 inch refractor can see this much detail - not to mention actually being able
to render them by hand! Who need's a CCD imager when Sol's around...
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Double Star Renditions!
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No jeff's sketching has not improved that much - but his programming sure has...
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What do things really look like through the eyepiece? Well sketches are good.
But graphical renditions are better. Of course you could -er- put your entrance pupil to a scopes exit pupil and capture them photons bio-organically. But only - for the most part - at night...
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Mars Sketches: 2003 Apparition
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Jeff's sketch skills have showed significant improvement since the last Mars apparition - but only because he was initially so lousy at it...
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Mars has moved north since the last opposition - and views have improved accordingly. Add to this relative freedom from pervasive dust storms and the Red Planet starts to make sense observationally. But there was one catch - the planets northern hemisphere managed to veil itself in carbon dioxide gas. But not too worry - its the southern hemisphere that really gets those eyeballs popping!
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Mars Sketches: 2001 Apparition
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Hey Jeff never pretended to be an artist, but he was willing to give a sense of what little could be seen from 37 degrees north this apparition.
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Although Argo gives fine views of the Gas Giants, the Red Planet has been a bit of an enigma. Surely a planet that comes within almost half an astronomical unit of the Earth on a regular basis can do better than this!
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Deepsky Study Sketch Gallery
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The sketches of DSO's look pretty realistic, but there is only so much that can be done with pencil, paper, scanner and PC.
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For Jeff, any kind of drawing "draws out" the most in him. It takes a lot of patience to put up with all the little irritations that come with doing deepsky drawings while at the eyepiece. For one, you have to keep turning that "not so dim" red flashlight on and off. But once scanned in and inverted, these things do a fair job of showing you "how it is"...
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Lunar Sketch Gallery
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There are much better sketches on the web (check out
Cor's drawings)
but some of these things aren't half-bad...
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"Love Her or Leave Her." On a clear and steady night Selene can be about the most breathtaking study in the sky. But when you'd rather be out chasing faint fuzzies, she is an unwelcome and attention grabbing interloper!
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A Handful of Gas Giant Sketches
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There's not a whole lot of Jupiter and Saturn drawings available on Astro.Geekjoy,
so why not group them together?
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Sketching has to be one of the best ways to improve the eye's discernment of "on the edge" detail. Although many methods exist to streamline the drawing process to get anything out of them there is no substitute for trying new things...
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