This time I send a sketch of comet LOVEJOY from todays morning.
The observation was made with 166x magn. on my telescope.
The comet is a really nice one with both binos and telescope!
Info on my sketch.
I used graphite pencil on white paper and inverted in color.
Location : Trondheim, Norway.
Object Name NGC 6231
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Brasília-DF, Brazil
Date: October 12th, 2013 5:05 UT
Media 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with GIMP
Instrument: 120mm f/5 refractor + 15mm (24x)
Hi! to the community, sending a sketch of the last observation turned nice. This galaxy can be found in the constellation Lynx near Alpha. It is a very bright galaxy by its surface brightness 12.9 resulted in my wonderful scope for the great amount of detail offered, was not at its highest point in the sky but it was no problem. It seems that at the bottom below the elongated core could see a faint dark area running along the core from side to side, someone detect this subtle detail?
Soon ends the year and my wish for you, follow every day sharing our hobby with others like the first day without losing hope in these difficult times, having clear and transparent skies to continue sketching.
‘m sure that most of my fellow astronomy artists will agree with me when I say that the most challenging objects to draw are complex open clusters. There are just so many stars filling the FOV that it’s nearly impossible to draw them all and most of the time motivation’s already gone before you’ve actually started drawing. But this time I persevered and after more than two hours behind the eyepiece I think that I’ve more or less caught everything that I saw. Well, probably not though because after such a long observation time my head was literally spinning. But here it is:
– Object: M37
– Location: Carù, Italy (province of Reggio Emilia), elevation 770m
– Date: 06 Dec 2013 – 20:15 UTC (start of observation…)
– Media: Ordinary graphite pencil on white paper, followed by several hours of elaboration on the PC
– Equipment: 18″ f/4,45 home-made PeterDob (Galaxy optics), 40mm Siebert VP Echelon 2″ binoviewer and a couple of 24mm Explore Scientific 82° eyepieces (no OCA), resulting in a mag of 85x
– Conditions: fairly cold but the sky was wonderfully transparent. No seeing measured, limit visual mag +/- 6,3
Object Name : NGC 2451
Object Type: Open Cluster
Location: Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date 23-11-2013
Media : graphite pencil 2H and 2B, scumble, white paper, edited with GIMP 2.
Intrumental: Binocular Braun 12×50
The night was very dark and quite. Luckily, there was no wind and i went outside with the determination to draw one of my favourites open clusters. I always spend a lot of time watching this beautiful object. I really enjoyed it!! Thank you so much!