{"id":479,"date":"2009-07-02T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/07\/02\/drawn_to_the_un_4\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:23:13","slug":"drawn_to_the_un_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/07\/02\/drawn_to_the_un_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawn to the Universe<br \/>AUG 2009 &#8211; NGC 6940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August issue of <i>Astronomy Now<\/i> is available. The rich, open cluster NGC 6940 is featured in this column where we take a look at basic methods for scanning and inverting your black on white sketches to convert them to white on black positives.<\/p>\n<table class=\"objectdata\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\">\n<tr>\n<td><b>Subject:<\/b><\/td>\n<td class=\"subject\">NGC 6940<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Issue:<\/b><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astronomynowstore.com\/ww\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=313\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2009<\/a> <i>Astronomy Now<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Basic Media:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>Charcoal and graphite on artist grade paper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Suggested Materials:<\/b><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li>White artist grade stock<\/li>\n<li>Charcoal pencil<\/li>\n<li>HB and 2H graphite pencils<\/li>\n<li>Artist&#8217;s chamois<\/li>\n<li>Blending Stump<\/li>\n<li>Clipboard and adjustable red light<\/li>\n<li>Computer<\/li>\n<li>Scanner or Digital Camera<\/li>\n<li>Image editing software such as\n<ul>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Photoshop Elements<\/li>\n<li>Paintshop Pro<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIMP<\/a> &#8211; <i><b>Free!<\/b><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"imageblock\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2009\/img200908AN_NGC6940poslg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2009\/img200908AN_NGC6940pos.jpg\" alt=\"Positive Sketch of NGC 6940\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Inverted, Positive Sketch of NGC 6940<\/p>\n<p><i>Click image to view larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"imageblock\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2009\/img200908AN_NGC6940neglg.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2009\/img200908AN_NGC6940neg.jpg\" alt=\"Negative Sketch of NGC 6940\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Original Negative Sketch of NGC 6940<\/p>\n<p><i>Click image to view larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August issue of Astronomy Now is available. The rich, open cluster NGC 6940 is featured in this column where we take a look at basic methods for scanning and inverting your black on white sketches to convert them to white on&hellip;<\/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":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":492,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/10\/01\/drawn_to_the_un_6\/","url_meta":{"origin":479,"position":0},"title":"Drawn to the UniverseOCT 2009 &#8211; NGC 7662","author":"jperez1690","date":"October 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The October issue of Astronomy Now focuses on NGC 7662, the Blue Snowball nebula. 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