{"id":539,"date":"2010-08-12T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/08\/12\/drawntotheunive_1\/"},"modified":"2010-08-12T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T00:03:16","slug":"drawntotheunive_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/08\/12\/drawntotheunive_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawn to the Universe
AUGUST 2010 – C\/2009 R1 (McNaught)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Positive<\/a><\/p>\n

Positive Sketch of C\/2009 R1 (McNaught)<\/p>\n

Click image to view larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Original<\/a><\/p>\n

Original Negative Sketch of C\/2009 R1 (McNaught)<\/p>\n

Click image to view larger version.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"August<\/a><\/div>\n

Bright comet C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) is the subject of this month’s column. We look at graphite techniques for sketching a comet, and optional digital colorizing of the coma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject:<\/b><\/td>\nC\/2009 R1 (McNaught)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Issue:<\/b><\/td>\nAugust 2010<\/a> Astronomy Now<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Basic Media:<\/b><\/td>\nGraphite and Charcoal on White Paper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Featured Technique:<\/b><\/td>\nUsing graphite and blending stump to sketch the main comet features: coma, condensation, ion tail and dust tail. Finishing with the digital addition of color to the coma using Adobe Photoshop.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Suggested Materials:<\/b><\/td>\n\n
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  • White acid-free drawing paper<\/li>\n
  • HB and 2H graphite pencils<\/li>\n
  • White vinyl eraser pencil and putty rubber<\/li>\n
  • Blending stump<\/li>\n
  • Clipboard and adjustable red observing light<\/li>\n
  • If you wish to add colour to your drawing, you can use other sketch media, or digital tools such as GIMP or Photoshop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Positive Sketch of C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) Click image to view larger version. Original Negative Sketch of C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) Click image to view larger version. Bright comet C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) is the subject of this month’s column. We look at graphite techniques…<\/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-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":537,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/06\/15\/c2009_r1_mcnaug\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":0},"title":"C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) – JUN 15, 2010","author":"jperez1690","date":"June 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"C\/2009 R1 (McNaught) 20100615","rel":"","context":"In "Comet"","block_context":{"text":"Comet","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/comet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":536,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/06\/08\/why_the_dry_spe\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":1},"title":"Why the Dry Spell","author":"jperez1690","date":"June 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been falling behind here, I know. I've still got some doubles to post, and a new full-disc Lunar sketch. I'm also hoping to get a look at the latest McNaught (C\/2009 R1) in the next few days...I'll be sure and post when I do! One of the things that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":226,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2006\/01\/21\/comet_c2005_e2\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":2},"title":"C\/2005 E2 (McNaught) – January 22, 2006","author":"jperez1690","date":"January 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"C\/2005 E2 (McNaught) 20060122","rel":"","context":"In "Comet"","block_context":{"text":"Comet","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/comet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/c2006_p1_mcnaug_4\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":3},"title":"C\/2006 P1 (McNaught) Observations","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"C\/2006 P1 (McNaught) Observations","rel":"","context":"In "Comet"","block_context":{"text":"Comet","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/comet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":430,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/08\/01\/binocular_sketc\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":4},"title":"Binocular Sketches","author":"jperez1690","date":"August 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Binocular Sketches","rel":"","context":"In "Gallery"","block_context":{"text":"Gallery","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/gallery\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":311,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2007\/01\/08\/c2006_p1_mcnaug\/","url_meta":{"origin":539,"position":5},"title":"C\/2006 P1 (McNaught) – JAN 08, 2007","author":"jperez1690","date":"January 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"C\/2006 P1 (McNaught) 20070108","rel":"","context":"In "Comet"","block_context":{"text":"Comet","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/comet\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}