Jeremy Perez – Page 26 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

A Trio in Triangulum

Good afternoon,

A clear evening yesterday albeit with quite a glow from a 77% Moon allowed me to go for a lovely trio in Triangulum, NGC 672, IC 1727 and PGC 1803573 far exceeded my expectations in terms of beauty and structural detail the 20″ mirror a Watec video camera yielded.

The observation and sketch was a follow up on an observation Adrian Orr and I shared with my at Kelling Heath using his 18″, on that occasion we had only observed the NGC and IC members, the far more distant mag 16.3 PGC edge on galaxy with central bulge only became apparent to me after I researched the brighter duo. I stated to Adrian only yesterday that it was my desire to catch this third galaxy but at that time it was by no means a foregone conclusion.

I hope that you find my sketch of interest? It is my intention to get back onto the ARP trail with the next clear sky.

Kind regards, Dale

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Mars, Jupiter and a Crescent Moon for Breakfast

Mars, Jupiter and Crescent Moon - October 29, 2013 — Mars, Jupiter and Crescent Moon – October 29, 2013

Object Name : night sky
Object Type : Planets, stars and moon
Location : Montréal, Canada
Date: October 29th 2013
Media: pastel, white and pink gel pens on black paper

Unable to sleep I decided to get up early on October 29th. It was 5:00 in the morning and the air was crisp but the sight was absolutely gorgeous. I decided to get my pastels and try my best to represent the ambiance and colors of the scenery. Mars was at the left side of a crescent moon and Jupiter hanging high at the right hand side with Castor and Pollux (Gem)

Jean Barbeau

Crater Parry

Hello friends of the stars,

on 15th August, I decided to make a lunar crater drawing. It was the first in 2013. I was even a little scared and realized when making the drawing, that it was not so easy on the hand. The edge areas also act somewhat coarser than usual, but overall I was pleased with the “Parry”. I noticed this crater is, as it almost appeared hexagonal or honeycomb.

The air was in the low-lying moon of course not the best.

CS Uwe

Here are a few details:

48 km diameter
Wall heights up to 560 m
Age about 3 billion years
Basic flooded with lava

Location: Near Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
Telescope: 10 “ACF
Eyepieces: 18mm Orthos (binocular)
Magnification: 150x to 200x

Watercolor Prom

Solar Prominence - April 22, 2012 — Solar Prominence – April 22, 2012

Object Name (Sun)
Location (Rocbaron – Var in Provence)
Date (April 22 2012 16h12 local time)
Media (white paper, emerald green watercolour, inverted scanning.)

Hello artists

Just a few hours after the great sketch of Stratos Tsanaktsidis, I had the opportunity to draw this one. I use a common H alpha PST Coronado.

My technique is quite original, after a light circle portion made by a graphite pencil on white paper I use directly a pure watercolour “green emerald” to sketch the solar surface on a water base and then the protuberances on the dry part of the sky, taking into account that light green will become dark red and vice-versa. Then I just have to invert the colours after scanning. The white sky is becoming black while the green part is becoming “H alpha red”.

Right, I add the approximate dimension of the earth and the moon orbit.

Clear sky to you all

Michel Deconinck

http://astro.aquarellia.com

Evening Jupiter

Jupiter - March 13, 2012 — Jupiter – March 13, 2012

Object Name: Jupiter
Object Type: Planet
Location: Lombard, IL, USA, 41° 52′ 48″ N / 88° 0′ 28″ W
Date: 13 Mar 2012, 20:15 CDT
Media: Pencil
Comments: Attached is the glorious Jupiter, with its four Galilean moons, from left to right: Io, Europa, Callisto, Ganymede. Usually, Jupiter shows more details, but its way past its prime viewing conditions at Sun-Earth opposition. The sketch was done by pencil, as observed at 240x, sky around the planet turned negative after scanning. Jupiter colors were adjusted using Photoshop to resemble observable Jovian palette better.

I’m re-sending this email with appropriate subject,

Evolution of a Solar Prominence

Solar Prominence - September 22, 2013 — Solar Prominence – September 22, 2013

Hello from France.

Object Name: Evolution of solar [prominence]
Object Type : Solar [prominences]
Location: Castres France
Date: 22 september 2013
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, digital treatment (color, inversion)

– Good seeing and transparency
– PST and Ethos 8mm

Yours Sincerely
Emmanuel Pélegrin

SITE WEB http://planetarn.pagesperso-orange.fr/manu/MANU.htm

A Window on the Moon at Dawn

Waning Crescent Moon - August 1, 2013Waning Crescent Moon — Waning Crescent Moon – August 1, 2013

In this year’s my vacation, I stayed an observatory.
The sky was not clear, so I drunk until dawn with my friends.
AM 4:00, I lay visitor’s room, and I saw cloudy moonlight outside of the window.

It was very fantastic! I drew a picture using my smart phone immediately.

Location : Star observatory in S. Korea
Date : Aug 1. 2013
Medoa : Smart Phone (SAMSUNG Galaxy Note 2), my forefinger

H-Alpha Sun – August 30, 2013

– Object Name: Sun

– Equipment: Coronado, special instrument to observe the Sun

– Location: Castres (France)

– Date: 08/30/13

– Author: Jean Marc Saliou

– Processing : Photoshop

The sun’s activity is very important in this moment, causing greats eruptions that I drew the best I could. Note that few sunspots appear (maximum 2). The dark lines on the sun are eruptions pointing in our direction.

Sincerely,

Jean Marc Saliou

NGC 7331 and Companions

Hello,

this is my sketch of NGC 7331, the Deer Lick Group.

Drawn on 5.9.2013 at hohloh, kaltenbronn, black forest, germany.
Telescope used: 18″ at

135x for details in NGC 7331
400x for its companion galaxies.

Drawn with graphite on white paper (using tortillons, erasers)
scanned, inverted, and processed to remove “dust-stars” from scanning, darkened, and used the smudge tool
in PhotoFiltre to soften the Galaxies.

Cheerz,
Arndt

Looking Back at Saturn 2012

Saturn - May 1, 2012 — Saturn – May 1, 2012

Hi, I send my sketch of Saturn. The Saturn is my favorite of the planets. I live in Psary in Poland. The sketch I did on the night of 30 April to 01 May. I had a very good view of the scale of 8/10. Saturn showed a lot of detail. You could see the famous Cassini gap. The atmosphere was very calm and did not cause degradation of the image of this interesting planet.
I was using 200x magnification. My telescope is a Newton 200/1200. I used a pencil to sketch 2B and white paper. Using GIMP I added a black background, which gives a realistic picture of Saturn with a telescope. GREETS 🙂

Date 01 May 2012

Seeing 8/10

Power 200x

Telescope: Newton Dobson 200/1200

Eypiece: PL vixen6mm

Media: White paper and pencil 2B