Last new moon I began the largest sketching project ever for me - the Eastern Veil.

All in all I needed 2 nights with approx 7h of observing time to get the rough sketch on the paper. I used no star form and sketched free from one end (N) to the other end (S). I took 2 walk trough, 1 for each night. The rough sketch consists of 3 A4 sides. As addition I added 2 test star fields to determine the limiting magnitude. I only uses 172x with the 27" with the [OIII] filter.

The fine sketch (black on white paper) needed approx the same time than the rough sketch at the eyepiece. I tried to reach approx the same limiting magnitude on the paper than through the eyepiece. I place every star per hand and control most of the stars before the sketching.

Here is the result with 1000x width. Higher resolution and the original black and white scan you can see at the homepage