Category: Inverted

Comet Lemmon

C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)

• Object Name: C2012 F6 Lemmon

• Object Type: Comet

• Location: Pelayos de la Presa Spain

• Date: 14/07/2013

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

• inverted colors with GIMP 2.8

In late June the comet Lemmon began to be visible to observers in the northern hemisphere, before, in the southern hemisphere, showed a long tail that has characterized this comet. Now we show only a beautiful fluorescent C2 gas coma (turquoise in the photos).
I could see for the first time on June 6, but it was the morning of the 14th when I made a small log with notes and drawing and its distance from the sun was 2 AU and 1.9 AU is Earth Cassiopeia was in in a very rich star field, about 2 ° of M52 and had already risen about 65 degrees above the horizon.

With 80x magnification is shown as a cloud discussion with poorly defined borders, its brightness was low, with the center a little more dense and down very gently outward. The tone of his luster was smooth and looked lively, not dull like galaxies. Its size would be around 3 ‘or 4’ relative to the eyepiece. With no colorfulness lost tail, but it was very nice “so that we can have known” before we leave this year (I think it does not return for another 10 years).

Greetings to all visitors of this page. PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 19/07/2013

Jones 1

Jones 1
Jones 1

Aloha!

I submit to you a sketch of Jones 1 or PK104-29.1. After an evening of excellent seeing & pursuing dim & stellar planetary objects, this was a treat to finish the evening with. The sketch shows my observation using OIII & NPB filters.

Jones 1 is a 12th to 15th magnitude (depending on source referenced) ~5’ planetary nebula located in Pegasus. It appears very dim but takes on much more detail with the use of OIII or NPB filters. It appears somewhat circular with the brightest rim to the NW, however another rim of brightness appears to the SE at times. With prolonged observation there is a shimmering & shifting to the brightness within the broken ring. A few dim stars appears embedded with averted vision. My profession is in the medical field and I was struck by a first impression of a 3 dimensional corpuscle!

Cindy (Thia) Krach

10/10/13 12:45 am
Jones 1 Planetary Nebula in Pegasus
12.5” Portaball
14mm 109x
OIII or NPB filters
graphite pencil on white paper inverted with Photoscape

Ancient Light from Andromeda

Messier 31
Messier 31

ASOD: ” Andromeda galaxy M31″

Object Name: Messier 31, M 32 and M110

Object Type: Galaxy

Date: 10/6/2013

Location: A Coruña, Galicia. Spain.

Media: pencil, white paper, color invert and enhance with Gimp.

Miyauchi binoculars Bj-100 (26x)

Seein: 3/5 (good)

This is my first attempt to draw the great Andromeda galaxy. I like to end my observations by pointing to M31 and think about the long journey from his light until it reaches us.

Jets of Halley

Comet 1P/Halley
Comet 1P/Halley

Hey ASOD- friends!

This is a sketch of the famous comet P/ Halley.
The comet showed some structures in the circular coma (jets), and
it was interesting to see an occultation of the nearby star to west by
the centralcondensation later!
In january 1986, comet Halley got a 2 deg. long tail and was a
fine object in binos and telescopes from Norway.
I found Halley early (8. oct.- 85), and followed it carefully all the way
on northern sky and from Tenerife in apr. – 86.
At this time I was leader of the comet- section in Norway.
The sketch was made with graphite (pencil) on white paper (inverted).
Location : Trondheim, Norway. Info on my sketch!

Best wishes from : Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Kemble’s Cascade & NGC 1502 – Camelopardalis

Kemble's Cascade and NGC 1502
Kemble’s Cascade and NGC 1502

Hi ASOD, sending this observation of this magnificent object. It was the first time I could see this object and had to make the sketch. is a large area with a number of very luminous stars that end up in the open cluster NGC 1502 with its easy double star Struve 485 detectable at low power. This object will be of my favorite deep sky objects, I hope you can watch it and enjoy it as much as I do.

regards.

Object name: Kemble’s Cascade & NGC 1502 Camelopardalis
Object type: Asterism & Open cluster
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 7 October 2013
Hour: 00:00 < 00:45
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Refractor Tele Vue 101 F / 5,4 Genesis SDF Eye piece ES 30mm
Magnification 18x True field 4,5°

Sky conditions: Stable sky, light wind. Nelm 6,2 Temperature 10,2°C Relative humidity 57% Borthle scale 3/9

http://dibujodelcielonocturno.blogspot.com.es/

Orion’s belt stars

Orion's Belt
Orion’s Belt

Hello ASOD, here join my last watercolor

Object Name (Orion’s belt stars and M42)
Object Type (Constellation and nebulae)
Location (Porquerolles on board of Aquarellia)
Date (02-10-2013)
Media (watercolor on white paper, paint.net for inverting the sky)

In the night of October the first, our old two masts Aquarellia was anchoring close to the harbour of Porquerolles, one of the three “Provencal golden islands”.
At one o’clock in the night I wake me up,… maybe ‘cause of some wave noise? I was surprised by seeing the Orion’s belt stars and M42 rising close to the ‘Sainte Agathe’ fort. With my 7×50 binoculars I sketch this original encounter, the mythic Orion warrior at the rear of a real castle.
The French coast, here in my nord, is full of light pollution but to my surprise, the castle illumination was the only light in the sight. The island is not so close to the polluted coast, so the Orion’s constellation was pure in the dark while rising.
This watercolour was made on board with local salt water (;

I hope you enjoy

Michel Deconinck

http://astro.aquarellia.com/

Phantom Erupts

Messier 74
Messier 74

Object Name: M74 and SN2013ej
Object Type: galaxy and supernova
Location: Cherry Springs, Pennsylvania
Date: August 5, 2013
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, digitally inverted and scaled

Notes: 16″ Newtonian, 225x. Observed UT 2013-08-05 06:30-08:20. 10 deg. C, 75% humidity. Exceptional transparency, good seeing. Most of the night the transparency was variable, but it became exceptionally good (at least for summer) one hour before astronomical twilight. As M74 was then reaching respectable altitude, it erupted with detail. The very compact HII region Hodge 627 was seen intermittently within the star cloud at the end of the southern arm. Although the exaggerates this brightness difference, supernova 2013ej was indeed brighter than the surrounding Milky Way stars.