Category: Inverted

M44 The Beehive Cluster

M44, The Beehive Cluster
M44, The Beehive Cluster

Howdy friends!

I want to introduce you to M44 watched from my spot. This is an interesting object even to be observed from a high polluted place like Madrid.
I hope you like it.

Object Name: M44 – The beehive cluster / Praesepe / Cúmulo del pesebre.
Object Type: Open Cluster
Constellation: Cancer; R.A.: 08h 40,1m; Dec: +19° 59′
Location: Madrid (City Center)
Date: April 28th 2014 23:00 h.(CET)
Temperature: 13 ºC
Seeing: 4/5
Telescope: Celestron nexstar 5′ S/C.
Eyepiece: 25 mm celestron + Barlow 2x.
Magnification: 100x
Filter: Astronomik UHC-E.
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Scanned and then inverted and processed image with GIMP

Regards and clear skies!

Trying something New with the Sun

The H-alpha Sun - May 9, 2014
The H-alpha Sun – May 9, 2014
Non inverted colors on white paper.
Non inverted colors on white paper.
Inverted
Inverted

Aloha!

I was enjoying the Sun this morning and trying to decide how to represent the most prominent features. Sketching the Sun has just not gotten me the feeling that I can really represent it as well as I would like to as far as colorizing goes. I like using black paper but it isn’t smooth enough whereas plain white paper is. But when I have tried to add color later, it just loses what I see in the scope.

So today I tried a little something different. I like how some inverted blue colors really become the right colors for the Sun. So I put some oil pastel colors to paper & inverted to see what I could use. The nice thing about the oil pastel is I can scratch off small little lines to try to get the details of the solar surface. I had to think in negative to produce the sketch in order to preserve black, white and the different tones of red. This is my 1st attempt using this technique and I am not entirely happy with it but it is a bit of an experiment.

H-alpha Sun
5/9/14
60mm Lunt 88x
Oil Pastel, white permanent pen, white paper, Lyra polycolor pencils, a needle to scratch off the oil pastels to produce dark lines
Inverted with Photoscape software

Cindy (Thia) Krach
Maui. HI

NGC 5529

Galaxy NGC 5529
Galaxy NGC 5529

Dear fellow Webb society members 🙂

I’m very sorry that you haven’t had too much from me of late, it certainly isn’t due to the fact that I have lost interest 😉

Anyhow, prompted as I often am by Owen’s superb selection of galaxy of the month here is my b&w inversion of my original sketch of NGC 5529 a beauty from Bootes, drawn using pencil and blending stumps on cartridge paper of the image delivered in psudeo real time by my 20″ F3.7 mirror and cooled Watec 120n+ deep sky video camera onto a b&w CRT monitor. 🙂

I hope you like it and I hope that you get a chance to enjoy it yourselves.

Clear Skies, Dale

Do you want to know more about my interest in astronomy? If so take a look at my Website: http://www.chippingdaleobservatory.com/

Keep up to date with observations from Chippingdale Observatory by reading the Blog http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/

C/2013 R1(LOVEJOY) Dec 04 2013

Comet C2013R1 Lovejoy - December 4, 2013
Comet C2013R1 Lovejoy – December 4, 2013

Object Name : C/2013 R1 (LOVEJOY)
Object Type : comet
Location : Laprade lake (Aude), south-west France
Date : December 04 2013 4h45 TU
Media : graphite pencil, white paper + PhotoPaint

Comments :
The LOVEJOY coma is bright and light green colour. A darker ring surrounds the shiny nucleus.
The tail is wide and about 10° long. It is rather white.
I saw it easily with binocular 10×50 on the left of Boots constellation.

Condition : A very good and dark night, no moon, no wind, pretty good seeing.
I could report mag 7 to 12 starfield.
No significative named star in the field.

Equipment : 300mm Dobson Telescope + 24mm Ultra Wide Angle eyepiece (mag X64 FOV 1.3°)
Sketch was made with pencil on white paper while observing the comet before sunrise (-2°C)
A bit of image processing was used to invert the image and give it some colour.

Jean-Marc SALIOU
A.P.A.M. astronomy
http://www.astrosurf.com/apam

The Orion Nebula

The Great Nebula of Orion
The Great Nebula of Orion

Hi Friends,
Following with my drawings from a light-polluted place, this time I show you my own Orion Nebula (M42) version, from the center of Madrid. As you could see, the nebula becomes faintest than in a dark sky but you can still perceive the trapezium.

Siguiendo con mis dibujos en lugares contaminados lumínicamente, esta vez os envío mi versión de la nebulosa de Orion (M42) desde el centro de Madrid. Como veis se vuelve más difusa que un cielo oscuro, pero aun así es fácilmente distinguible el trapecio.

Object Name: M42 – NGC 1976
Object Type: Nebula
Constellation: Orion; R.A.: 05h 35m; Dec: −05° 23′
Location Madrid (City Center), Spain.
Date March 5th 2014 21:50 h.(CET)
Temperature: 9 ºC Seeing: 4/5
Telescope: Celestron nexstar 5′ S/C.
Eyepiece: 25 mm celestron + barlow 2x.
Magnification: 100x
Filter: Astronomik UHC-E.
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper.
Scanned and then inverted and processed image with GIMP

Clear skies!!

IC 4756

IC 4756 Open Cluster
IC 4756 Open Cluster

Object: IC 4756
Type: Open cluster
Date 9/16/2012
Instrument: 6″ F/5 dobsonian reflector
Sketch: Pencil on paper and then inverted after scanning into the computer.

This is a sketch of open cluster IC 4756 in Serpens made on September 16, 2012 with a 6″ F/5 dobsonian reflector. Very large cluster of stars near the pretty double Theta Serpentis. Some 30 – 50 stars were counted in the cluster which appears to have several concentrations of stars separated from one another by voids. the cluster fills the field at 75X.

Mars April 20, 2014

Mars - April 20, 2014
Mars – April 20, 2014

Hello, here is a picture of Mars made ​​with my Dobsonian Telescope 12 “equipped with a binocular , with a magnification of 500x. Viewing conditions were really excellent, which was rare in early spring … Many details were visible, including the famous Syrtis Major and Sinus Sabaeus visible right training up. I also observed a beautiful cloud formation on Elysium, left visible at sunset

Détails :
Object : Mars
Location : France (Vendée-Atlantic)
Date : 20/04/2014
Support : Mars Gabarit and Pencils Derwent Academy

Good reception and thank you for your interest
Best regard, Yohan Archambaud ( Vendée, France)

Messier 67

Messier 67 (NGC 2682)
Messier 67 (NGC 2682)

• Object Name: Messier 67 (NGC 2682)

• Object Type: Open cluster

• Location: Pelayos de la Presa Spain

• Date: 04/19/2014

• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2, torchon 1 and 130g drawing sheet

• Inverted color and processed GIMP 2.8

Observation notes:

New 10” dob telescope. 80x. Object Elevation +53 º. Male 5,4. 17º C. Moisture 40 º/º.

M 67 is a good open cluster.

It is easy to see in the form 9x as a round puff, with a bright orange star in the crimped edge.

It is dominated by a bright orange star that seems to project jets of bright stars like a majestic fountain in the middle of the dark sky.

Greetings to all visitors of this page.
PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 04/19/2014