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Photographer:

James Maxwell

Location of Photo:

Near Grant, AL

Date/Time of photo:

Oct 8 & 26, Nov 2 & 11

Equipment:

20" F/5 Newtonian, with 13mm Ethos, 35mm Plossl/Russell Optics, 35mm Orion DeepView, Baader Neodymium, Baader OIII, and Red Filters. Graphite pencil and blending stump on Strathmore tracing paper. "LED Light Box" app for i-Pad.

Description:

Made sequential sketches of comet ISON on its incoming trajectory. Each sketch is a composite of separate B&W drawings from each filter, drawn over a red backlit tablet. Later, I stacked the filtered views to create colored sketches of the comet, where applicable.

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