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This aspect of the hobby has undergone a resurgence in recent years. Although there is, of course, a huge proliferation of relatively cheap CCD cameras for the budding astro-imager, astronomers are coming back to using the ol’ mark one and a pencil. Perhaps because it is cheaper and quicker to set up. But also, it requires you to really study the object if you’re going to try and sketch it.
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Rumistrzewicz, S. (2010). Sketching. In: A Visual Astronomer's Photographic Guide to the Deep Sky. Astronomer's Pocket Field Guide. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7242-2_3
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