Stöfler and Faraday

Stöfler and Faraday
Stöfler and Faraday

Object Type: Moon Craters

Location: Barcelona – Spain

A fantastic embedded collection of craters in the south pole of the Moon. Best seen in the seventh night of lunation.

For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:

http://www.laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/stofler-y-faraday.html

Date and Time: 2013-06-15, 21h 21m UT

Telescope: SC Celestron Nexstar 5i (127mm)

Eyepiece: Orthoscopic 5mm (250x)

White paper, HB2 and 5B graphite pencil, and scanned and inverted with Photoshop

Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)

Transparency: Clear. Suburban Skies.

Thank you and best regards.

Oscar

The Big Bear Ate an Owl?

Messier 97
Messier 97

Hello!
I would like to present you my latest sketch made at the astronomical meeting in the Bieszczady Mountains.
The second version is a little brighter for darker monitors

Object: Messier 97 (Owl Nebula)
Equipment: Meade Lightbridge 8” with LVW 13mm and UHC-S filter.
Technique: Pencil on white paper, inverted, some corrections with GIMP (especially stars)
Place and date: May 10, 2013. Natura Park, Stężnica, Bieszczady Mountains
Author: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

Messier 97 - Lightened
Messier 97 – Lightened

Arp 254

Arp 254
Arp 254

Another from the early hours of morning, Arp 254 a lot going on here beyond my sketch, but knowing of the interaction taking place and seeing the start of the bridge is quite an amazing thing if you think about it!

I have a little back log of sketches that I need to get out to you, I just did this one as it was a single and I wrote the blog pretty quickly!

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/

Petals of a Planetary – NGC 2818

NGC 2818
NGC 2818

Aloha!

I submit to you my sketch of planetary nebula NGC 6818 and the beautiful open cluster of stars that frame it, NGC 2818A, in the southern constellation Pyxis. The night was exceptionally clear & still at ~10,000 foot elevation site of Haleakala.

At the eyepiece this planetary appears as a greyish, elongate & irregular ghostly object within a lovely, but dim open cluster of 10th to 14th magnitude stars. On prolonged observation this open cluster takes on the appearance of petals of a flower with the planetary somewhat offset in the central region. The planetary nebula is best seen with averted vision and a narrow pass band filter which is helpful to better define the borders.

Though NGC 2818 & its often cited as a member of this open cluster of stars, accurate measurement of their velocities suggest this is a only chance alignment. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090122.html

NGC 2818 & NGC 2818A in Pyxis
Planetary Nebula / Open Cluster
Haleakala National Park, Maui HI
5/8/13 8:45pm
12.5” Portaball
14mm ES, 109X
DMG NPB Filter

Cindy (Thia) Krach
Haleakala Amateur Astronomers

The Tango

Messier 97 and 108
Messier 97 and 108

Object Name M97 and M108
Object Type Galaxy and Planetary Nebula
Location Banyoles (Girona), Catalonia
Date 2 – 6 – 13
Media Graphite and digital inverted colours

My equipment is a Dobson 10″ with a 25mm eyepiece. The seeing and transparency is 7/10.

Sorry for my english, this is my first sketch with my new dobson. When sketching that you see, you see more details!! It’s awesome!

The name of the sketch, “The Tango” is from… this objects are very spectecular pair on the sky, and give me a “Tango” idea.

… and sorry for my bad english 😉

Marc Muñoz.