Hello! This is a my sketch of one of the most beautiful cluster of the sky; the only but light Yellow/orange star make a fantastic contrast with the other bluish stars. I used my dobsonian telescope 10” f/5 and WA 12mm (104x).
Object name: Messier 6, Butterfly Cluster
Object type: Open Cluster
Location: Copertino (LE), Italy
Date: 3/7/2013
Media: India ink on white paper; inverted
Crater Cichus (41 km.) sits on the remains of the high rim of Mare Nubium in one of the few places where the edge of this mare is clearly visible. Resting high on the rim of Cichus is small crater Cichus C (11 km.). This region is a very interesting piece of lunar real estate which includes craters young, old, concentric ringed, buried ghosts, grabens like the one in this sketch to the north called Rima Hesiodus and domes like Kies Pi just beyond the sketch area. To the west of crater Cichus is a portion of Palus Epidemiarum.
The seeing was slightly less than average but you could wait for intervals of better seeing which arrived now and again.
A fun observation and relaxing sketch with mosquito repellent applied.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, 9”x 12”, white and black Conte’pastel pencils, white pearl eraser and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6mm eyepiece 241x
Date: 07-18-2013 02:05-03:50 UT
Temperature: 31°C (88°F)
Hazy, calm, humid
Seeing: mostly Antoniadi III
Co longitude: 27.3°
Lunation: 9.5 days
Illumination: 67.8 %
Frank McCabe
Object Name: Pluto and Palomar 8
Object Type: Planet and globular cluster
Location: Cherry Springs, Pennsylvania
Date: July 17, 2013
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, digitally inverted
Notes: 16″ Newtonian and 8 mm Ethos ocular, 225x. West left (arrow on sketch), north down. Pluto is indicated between two vertical dashes among stars. The nebulosity is the unresolved globular cluster Palomar 8. Sagittarius. The true conjunction was around 0 UT on July 15; the observation was made around 06:00 UT on July 17.
Object Name: Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC 3628)
Object Type: Galaxies
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 11.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Photoshop CS2
In my opinion, Leo Triplet is one of the most beautiful galactic triplet on our sky. In Poland it’s a typical spring constellation. We also have Mars in it at this time.
It was my first try sketching a galaxy, but I’m pretty satisfied with my picture, so I decided to try putting it on ASOD. I hope you like it.
Aloha,
Out on my deck, too tired to set up the telescope this night, I observed with my 7×35 Nikon binocular instead.
Locating Omega Centauri amongst the trees was a treat, particularly since there was a lovely asterism of 6th & 7th magnitude stars beneath it that look like the Big Dipper with a curved tail.
Object: Omega Centauri, NGC 5139
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: ~4,000 elevation, Maui, Hawaii
Date: 4/17/12, 10:35pm
Media: White paper & pencil. Inverted with Photoscape
Hey sketchers!
This time I send you an old but interesting observation of a break-up of
nucleus in three parts. This was the bright and splended comet West (1976).
In 50x magn., I could only see a streak in the bright coma, but with power of
166x, I could see the splitting parts of 7. to 8. mag.. Info on the sketch.
I look foreward to comet ISON, but I hope it will survive the perihel!!
location: Trondheim, Norway.
I used watercolor crayons on black paper.
Best wishes and clear sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Pedro Villamiel. New 10”. 80x.
• Object Name: M 19 (NGC 6273)
• Object Type: Globular Cluster
• Location: Pelayos de la Presa – Spain
• Date: 14/07/2013
• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2 torchon drawing sheet 1 and 130g
• inverted colors with GIMP 2.8
Observation notes:
Male 5,6 Height obj.20° to 25 °
(1) Identification: Easy. Be recognized in the form of 9x as a bright blur. With letters from mag. 6.5 slow 3 min.
(2) Brightness: Bright. Wide central dense and grainy soft descending into a speckled halo.
(3) Size: Large.
(4) Form: Both the densest as all show an oval shape.
(Five) Trait remarkable: The stretch in your form is very rare, on CG.
(6) Field: rich stellar field, double star 80 ‘. Two orders of magnitude. Very clear zone of stars around the GC.
(7) Better vision: With 110x shows a dense and brilliant oval center surrounded by a beautiful crown of fine sheen dotted
Greetings to all visitors of this page.
Pedro Villamiel. Alcorcon, Madrid. 14/07/2013
Object: NGC 4027 (GX, Crv)
Date: 07./08. 06. 2013.
UT.: 19h58m – 20h16m
Equipment: 400/1800 Skywatcher Dobsonian-reflector
Mag.: 200x
FOV: 17’
S = 7 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya (Hungary)
Location: Farm Isabis – Red house (Namibia)
Object: NGC 4038-4039 (GX, Crv)
Date: 06./07. 06. 2013.
UT.: 22h58m – 23h21m
Equipment: 400/1800 Skywatcher Dobsonian-reflector
Mag.: 300x
FOV: 11’
S = 7 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya (Hungary)
Location: Farm Isabis – Red house (Namibia)
Hello
un chapelet d’apparition du rayon vert, à la L80x60, Nouméa.
Crayon graphite et colorisation logiciel retouche d’image.
Cordialement
pour info : le livre “ASTRODESSIN, Observation & dessins en astronomie” est achevé, après 3 ans de travail en équipe. 560 pages, 2 volumes, à parraître en novembre 2013.
Serge
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English Translation via Google Translate:
Hello
Appearance of a string of green ray, the L80x60, Noumea.
Graphite pencil and coloring image editing software.
Regards
FYI: the book “ASTRODESSIN, Observation & drawings astronomy” was completed after three years of working as a team. 560 pages, 2 volumes, parraître in November 2013.
Serge
Object Name: M31 Andromeda Galaxy
Object Type:Spiral Galaxy
Location: Neyshabur, Khorasan Razavi, Iran at 36°14’15.38″N
58°48’34.51″E
Date: July 29th, 2012
Media: White paper,Graphite pencil, inverted the colors whit Photoshop
Time:1:01 Am until 1:16 AM
Wheather Conditions: Clear Sky, with lots of light pollution from
houses and street lanterns.
Equipment: Refracting Telescope 100mm, 25mm Ocular lens
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Mina Soleymanian
