Reminder of SketchBook App for Sketching

Also, there was interest in the Sketching App I mentioned, so here is a post over at Eadsy Astronomy LINK from my Blog here from May 16th, 2025 LINK that you can review.  I have updated the post over at Eadsy Astronomy if you want to see the udated article. 

I posted the images of the items I have observed and sketched using the app. I could see in time this replacing other sketching methods as long as you keep your observing eye covered with an eyepatch and minimize the light output when you go to observe, then cover the eye when you sketch. It can be done and saves a TON on not having to buy or take out equipment. 

As a FYI I LOVE how my globular turned out using the app, best globular I think I've done! Click on the image for full size and check out the updated post over at Eadsy Astronomy. Membership is free and I am not posting all my posts on my blog so join if you want to receive an email of when I post there. 

Etienne Leopold Trouvelot; Harvard Astronomer who made over 7000 drawings/sketches

In my presentation that I shared yesterday,  I forgot to put in this section about Etienne Leopold Trouvelot. Etienne was from France and fled France after Louis Napoleon Bonoparte came to power to Massachusetts. Anyway, I did a post about him and his drawings and sketching while he was employed at Harvard in their Astronomy Program. He did over 7000 sketches/drawings.  Here is the LINK over at EadsyAstronomy and if you are lookign for something to read or do during this cloudy period, with a desire to see how 19th century astronomers were interpreting the universe, it is an interesting read. On the other note he was resonsible for introducing the Gyspy Moth to North America . . .  it is all in my post. Here are some of his drawings/sketches. Head over to read, get the link to his online book or download the PDF of the book I've attached there.