CELEBRATING ASTRONOMY
IN IRELANDS
MIDWEST SINCE 1986
Sally Russell
Nationality: English
Affiliation: Royal Astronomical Society
Bio:
Sally Russell is a Research Chemist by profession and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. She is an avid amateur astronomer with a particular interest in solar and lunar observing, as well as being a keen and creative artist. Following the acquisition of an Astro-Physics refractor in 2001 she finally married her life-long astronomy and art pursuits together during the 2003 opposition of Mars.
In 2004/5 she developed and presented workshops on Astronomical Sketching for the GCSE Astronomy course run by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and some of her planetary sketches (made using the 28-inch refractor at the Greenwich Observatory) are featured on the National Maritime Museum website, along with the first of her many watercolour paintings of the Moon. She has since painted a number of astronomical commissions (some of which currently feature as cover artwork on commercial literature), had sketches and articles published in various UK astronomy magazines and internet journals, and many of her lunar drawings have featured on LPOD (Lunar Photo of the Day).
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