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Glenn Chaple's Observing Basics
February 2007
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"But I can't draw!"It's a complaint many an art teacher is all too familiar with. Perhaps you had the same thought upon discovering that our topic this month is astronomical sketching. Sketching at the eyepiece isn't as hard as you might think, as long as you don't rush. Besides a telescope and eyepieces, you'll need a clipboard, a sheet of paper with a circle on it to represent the field of view,... Read more »
February 2007: You can observe the effects of Earth's rotation on sky motion.
By Glenn Chaple // Published: February 1, 2007
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