Tonight is not a good observation night. Still, I can draw practice sketches from the Starry Night software. Here is Pleiades, one of the prettiest open clusters in the sky. The practice sketches now go on their own page too.
For this one, I used GIMP to enhance the scanned sketch image a bit. I used “smudge” to fuzz out some stray colored pencil marks in the nebulosity, and “blur” to make it even more nebulous. I only used slight blurring or else the stars would blur too. I also used the “levels” adjustment tool to make the background full black and the stars full white.
