Jupiter Sketch 05.09.05

Hi,

I had decent seeing and very good transparency for this Jupiter observation/sketch.

I used my 6" Skywatcher refractor.

GRS showed detail and the SEB rift following was very bright, long and well defined. I spent most of my sketch time sussing this out. GRS color was articulate but a pale pastel-like rust color

NEB had lots of marbling and 3 light areas noted. One in the NEBn on the preceding side. The other 2 straddle the CM equidistantly near NEBs.

Festoons were the graceful blurry kind with dark bar-like appearance at their bases on the NEBs

The SPR appeared somewhat calm.

I used my usual 4H and 2B pencils, trusty eraser shield, and blend with my fingers. The darkest areas were very lightly gone over with an 8B pencil.

Best, Sol Robbins

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Nice. Very nice indeed. Thanks to a combination of small scope and almost permenant __really really lousy__ transparency and seeing here in SE England the best I've ever seen in my (admittedly quite short) observing experience is glimpses of the NEB and SEB. And what's this GRS thing everyone keeps going on about? ;-)

Another great sketch Sol, while you have only been sketching planets for two years you have made what about a hundred sketches of Jupiter?,Experience, talent, good equipment good seeing, it all comes together with your excellant sketches.