{"id":314,"date":"2007-01-17T23:31:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T23:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/01\/17\/sketching_the_d\/"},"modified":"2007-01-17T23:31:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-17T23:31:03","slug":"sketching_the_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/01\/17\/sketching_the_d\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching the Deep Sky &#8211; February 2, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I put together a presentation called <i>Sketching the Deep Sky<\/i> that I delivered to the Coconino Astronomical Society. It covered the Why and How of astronomical sketching for deep sky objects, including two step-by-step tutorials. Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve made some improvements to it, and will be presenting it next to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saguaroastro.org\/default.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saguaro Astronomy Club<\/a> on Friday, February 2, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>If you are in the Phoenix area and are interested in attending, visitors are definitely welcome. The club meeting begins at 7:30 PM, and I&#8217;ll be giving the presentation after the business portion of the meeting concludes at about 8:30 PM. SAC meetings are held at Grand Canyon University in the Fleming Building, Room 105 (one block north of Camelback Road on 33rd Ave.) Directions can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saguaroastro.org\/content\/Meetings.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. If you are interested in attending, I look forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketching the Deep Sky 20070202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":567,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2011\/04\/22\/astronomical_sk_2\/","url_meta":{"origin":314,"position":0},"title":"Astronomical Sketching Worshop and Presentation at the 2011 NCRAL Convention","author":"jperez1690","date":"April 22, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Next Friday and Saturday - April 29 and 30 - I have the privilege of conducting a workshop and speaking on astronomical sketching at the 2011 NCRAL Annual Convention in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 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On Friday night, a group of about 35 attended the workshop where we practiced deep sky (M51\/NGC 5195), planetary (Jupiter), and lunar (Cassini Crater: Thanks to Mike Wirths for the use of his image) sketching. 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