Hello. I send my first drawing. I took it out of parchment, Buenos Aires, Argentina. I drew with pencil 2B, HB and stump. Greetings from Argentina!
Hola. Le envío mi primer dibujo. Lo saqué de Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dibujé con lápiz 2B, HB y difumino. Saludos desde Argentina!
My last observation of the official winter season, I chose the infamous asterism of Orion’s Belt. Perhaps one of the most recognizable formations in the Northern Hemisphere night sky, it is often best studied and seen in the winter… thus, my farewell to Winter… and hello to Spring! My eyes were also drawn to a sort of secondary formation that seemed to snake through the “belt”. Orion was a hunter, so perhaps aside from his sword, he carried some rope with him as well!
Object: Orion’s Belt
Date: March 18th, 2014 – 9:45 – 10:30pm CT
Location: New Braunfels, Texas – back yard
Conditions: 66°F, clear, just before the full moon rose
Instruments: 10×50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
Medium: Graphite on white sketch paper, inverted
Stars of Jen
http://stars.jenbishop.com
Hello again ASOD! I sketched this one in the same night of the Homunculus. That night i was amazed with the gas and dust of stars. VY Canis Majoris has less surrounding gas but its nice to see the shape of a “Little Homunculus”. Best regards. Leo
•Object Name: VY Canis Majoris.
•Object Type: Red hypergiant star.
•Location: San Miguel, Buenos Aires Argentina.
•Conditions: NELM 4.8-5.1. Good transparency, acceptable seeing. Moonset (Waxing Gibbous).
•Date: 12/01/2014 1:30 am.
•Media: 2H, HB, blend stump and PS.
•Equipment: Meade LB 12″ on equatorial tracking platform. Plossl 6.3mm.
PS: Image of the star: http://imageshack.com/a/img18/5883/d6nf.jpg. Credits to responsible.
Object name: STF 1196
Object type: Double Star
Location: Subiaco (IT) – 13 04 40.5E, 41 55 35.9N
Date: 2014-03-08
Media: graphite pencil
Hi ASOD, shipping this sketch of the last observation of the past month. With a good night’s transparency and stability, with many details in M 106 as his arms as S as never could see, but more rewarding was seeing the small companion galaxy NGC 4248 somewhat weak but detected no problems, perhaps the light of the main galaxy eclipse the detail of the small but very surprised.
Best regards.
Object name: Messier 106 & NGC 4248
Object type: Galaxy
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 22 February 2014
Hour: 23:20 < 23:50
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope Meade Lightbridge 10'' F/5 Eye piece Ethos 13mm
Magnification 97x True field 1°
Sky conditions: calm wind, good transparency. Temperature -1,3°C / 29,6 F RH 76%
I’ve began to sketch from the center of Madrid to display what can be observed from a light-polluted place. Although the number and brightness of stars decreases fairly compared to a dark sky, I think you can still enjoy even if you can’t move to better skies
He empezado a dibujar desde el centro de Madrid para mostrar qué se puede observar desde un sitio con alta CL. Aunque el número y brillo de las estrellas disminuye bastante comparado con un cielo oscuro, Creo que aún se puede disfrutar si no puedes moverte a mejores condiciones.
•Object Name: M41 – NGC 2287
•Object Type Open Cluster
•Constellation: Canis Major; R.A.: 06h 46m; Dec: −20º 46′
•Location Madrid (City Center)
•Date March 5th 2014 22:15 h.(CET)
•Temperature: 9 ºC
•Seeing: 4/5
•Telescope: Celestron nexstar 5′ S/C.
•Eyepiece: 25 mm celestron
•Magnification: 50x
•Filter: Astronomik UHC-E.
•Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Scanned and then inverted and processed image with GIMP
Clear skies!!
It was so easy to find these two in my field of vision… almost like they rather found me instead! I did not see anything “fuzzy” about the two… which is something I sort of half expected, but it was a perfect crystal clear night and every star was sharp. So far, this is the most complicated star field I’ve drawn.
Object: Double Cluster NGC 869/884 in constellation Perseus
Date: January 11th, 2014 – 9:00 – 10:30pm CT
Location: New Braunfels, Texas – back yard
Conditions: 45°F, perfectly clear with waxing gibbous moon
Instruments: 10×50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
Medium: Graphite on white sketch paper, inverted
Stars of Jen
http://stars.jenbishop.com
The Eskimo nebula is a fine object for each size of optical instrument. For this observation I’ve used an 11” SCT and have noticed the fine detailed structures within this planetary nebula for the first time – using averted vision, high magnification of 600x and an excellent UHC filter.
Details:
• Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392 / Caldwell 39) in Gemini
• Object Type: planetary nebula
• Location: Mechelen – Belgium (NELM 5.5)
• Date: 21st February 2014 – 21h37 UT
• Optics: Celestron CGEM C11 – ES82 4.7mm (600x) – Astronomik UHC filter
• Seeing: moderate, transparency good.
• Media: graphite pencil on white, scanned and inverted (GIMP2)
Observing notes:
Central star is easily direct visible within a round glow. Using averted vision a near-circular ring is clearly visible with some hints of variable brightness. The outer halo becomes gradually fainter and mottled using averted vision, containing some arc-like structures. Impressive view!
Short description:
Object Name Veil Complex in Cygnus – NGC6960, NGC 6992, Pickering Triangle
Object Type supernova remnant
Location Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date 03.10.2013
Media graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope Sky Watcher refractor 120/600 + GSO 30mm + Baader OIII
Seeing 3/5 (medium)
Transparency 3/5 (medium)
NELM 5,5 mag
Veil Complex (or Cygnus Loop) is a very popular object for bigger apertures (>10”) with OIII filter. But in past I dreamt to see it whole in one field of view. When I bought SW 120/600 I decided to try. I needed to use wide field GSO 30mm eyepiece with 70 degree AFOV, so I achieved 3,5 degree of FOV. It was sufficent 🙂
Full Veil Complex in one field of view looks really beatufiul. “Finger of God” and Eastern Veil shine bright on a dark sky backround and between them you can find misty shadow of Pickering Traingle.
I can say it’s really easy object, but one of the most spectacular ones.
You should try it!
Clear Sky
Łukasz
Object name: STF 919
Object type: Double Star
Location: Marina di Cerveteri (IT) – 12 02 44.3E, 41 58 52.9N
Date: 2014-02-22
Media: graphite pencil
