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Six-day old waxing moon The six-day waxing gibbous moon is visible for many hours in the evening – perfect for lunar observing and sketching. The time of my sketch was closer to the sixth day than the five day old moon. I had a hard time identifying craters using either lunar days! Note how much [...] three-day old waxing moon This year, my observing project is to recreate as many of Galileo’s original telescopic observations as I can. I’ll be using my smallest telescope, a 70mm refractor, and making my sketches using a 25mm eyepiece for a magnification of 19x. Each of my lunar sketch pages will each show three [...] Folio page 28 manuscript copy of Sidereus Nuncius sketch of 3-day old waxing moon 2-28-09 sketch of 5-day old waxing moon sketch of 14-day (full) moon 3/11/09
Galileo’s watercolor drawings were made with brown ink wash on watercolor paper. To me, these are the most beautiful of Galileo’s astronomical renderings. When I look [...] |
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