Category: Inverted

Venus on a Cold Winter Night

Venus - January 27, 2012
Venus – January 27, 2012

Object Name: Venus
Object Type: Planet
Telescope: Synta SW 8″ + GSO #15A Filter
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 27.01.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, photoshop cs2, inverted

Hello everyone. This is my newest sketch of one of our Solar System planets. I mean Venus as you can see on the picture. This is very bright and beautiful object on the night sky, but it is also quite hard to observing. Apart from this, sometimes we can see a clouds on Venus. When I was sketching it, I saw something a little bit darker than the rest of the planet and I think that it could be that clouds.
What about sky conditions? I can evaluate the seeing at 7/10, the visibility was very good, but the temperature was very low, about -20 Celsius degrees. But there is something amazing when you are sitting next to the telescope, looking at objects that are very far away when your fingers seems to be already frozen 😀

M42 Trapezium

M42 Trapezium
M42 Trapezium

Object Name: M42- Trapezium
Object Type: Nebula
Constellation: Orion
Location: Fredericksburg, Texas
Date: 02/07/13
Time: 21:20 CST
Conditions: Clear; Breezy
Seeing: 3/5; Transparency: 4/5
Equipment: 280mm SCT, 12.5mm EP
Power: 224x
FOV: 12′
Medium: Graphite pencil and Blending Stump on white paper. Photographed and color inverted.

I know this is a popular object. It’s beautiful in just about any telescope even from a light polluted area. But from a dark sky site (near 7 mag) like the one I was at it is unbelievable. So rich in nebulosity my sketch barely does it justice. At about 1400 light years and a diameter of some 24 light years this stellar nursery is fascinating! I have read that, besides being one of the closest star forming regions, the brightest stars and the youngest ones may be only 100,000 years old. I never tire of observing the Great Nebula!!!!

John E.

The 37 Cluster

NGC 2169
NGC 2169

hello asod, sent this sketch of the last observation. This open cluster has something special and reminiscent of 37 resulting in a spectacular asterism.This day the moon was present and disappeared before midnight, but did not stop at all observe this interesting deep sky object.greetings and thanks.

Object name: ngc 2169
Object type: open cluster
Location: bonilla cuenca ( spain )
Date: 14 february 2013
Media: graphite pencil,processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: dobsonian telescope 10″ meade lightbridge,eye piece explore scientific 14mm 82°
magnification 90x true field 0,9°

Sky conditions: Clear Calm,16% moon.nelm 5,4. Temperature 2,6°C relative humidity 70% borthle scale.

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

Messier 15

Messier 15
Messier 15

Hey ASOD- friends!

I send you one of the northern sky beautiful GC, M. 15! I used pen (ink) for the stars on white paper and inverted.
The observation was made from outside Trondheim, Norway. I look foreward to comet Panstarrs and expecially C/ ISON which perhaps will become a comet of the historic class! Then I will make some up-to-date sketches!

Best wishes to all observers and good luck !!

Per-Jonny Bremseth

NGC 2022 – Planetary Nebula in Orion

NGC 2022
NGC 2022

NGC2022

Object Type: Planetary Nebula

Location: Barcelona – Spain

Dark skies are necessary, but this planetary nebula in Orion is a great object. Complicated, but grateful.

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

http://laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/ngc2022-nebulosa-planetaria-en-orion.html

Date and Time: 2013-01-04, 21h 49m UT

Telescope: SC Celestron 9.25″ (235mm)

Eyepiece: Radian 10mm (235x)

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

Seeing: 3/5 (5 the best)

Transparency: Clear. Rural Skies.

Location Constellation: Orion

Position: R.A. 05h 42m

Dec. +09° 05′

Thank you and best regards.

Oscar

Messier 35

Messier 35
Messier 35

Hi. I am happy to send my ‘M35′ sketch to you.

Object Name : M35
Object Type : Open Cluster in Gemini
Location : But-gogae Yangdong-myeon Yangpyeong-gun Gyeonggi-do South.KOREA)
Date : 2013.2.11 Monday
Media : A4 paper, HB pencil
Equipment : 10’ dobsonian, XW 20mm
Observing conditions : A little cloudy
I could identify starchains but, could not define the NGC 2158(Probably the sky is not clear much)
Spent 1hour to sketch, 19:40 ~ 20:00

thank you.

Messier 45

Messier 45
Messier 45

Hello nightwatchers,

after long time I sketched a brighter m-objekt. M45 was very nice in my TMB 115/805. The refractor shows me in the wide field all the nice stars of this object.
It was very hard work at the 36mm eyepiece and I´ve got some problems to fix the distances and the ratio of the stars.

When I finished my first sketch, I forgot to transfer three stars in this picture. But now it´s done and a sketch will be a sketch, not a photo. Hope it´s o.k.

CS Uwe

NGC 6934

NGC 6934
NGC 6934

Hi, I send my sketch of NGC 6934. This is a spherical cluster of stars located in the constellation of Dolphin. Currently, the best conditions observation-object is located high in the sky. My telescope with 200mm aperture hardly ojedyncze showed barely visible stars.

Thanks

Object name: NGC 6934

Location: Psary in POLAND

Date: 17th August 2012

Instrument: Newton 200/1200

Power: 150x, eypiece BST 8mm

Media: White paper and pencil 2B

NGC 1980 and Messier 42

NGC 1980 and Messier 42
NGC 1980 and Messier 42

Object Name: NGC 1980
Location: RA: 05h 35m 25.9s, Dec: -05 ° 54 ’35 ”
Magnitude: 2.5
Dimensions: 14′ x 14’
Constellation: Orion
Type: Open Cluster associated with nebulosity.
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN
Date: December 9, 2012.
Time: 23:15 T.U.

Material used: Graphite pencil on white paper. Inverted image and processed with Photoshop.
Celestron Telescope S / C 8″ Mount Cgt-5
Eyepiece: Hyperion Aspheric 31 mm; Magnification: 65x.
Conditions: NEML: 6.13 (Zone 6 Peg.) Temp.: 0.4°C; Humidity 68%.

More information: http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com.es/