Category: Inverted

The Trapezium in M42

M42 Trapezium
M42 Trapezium

My main observing objects are moon & planets, and I do not invest much time in observing DSO.

But whenever winter season comes, I used to aim my telescopes at the Great orion nebula .

This December, I have observed it 3 times ( 3 day ) with a 16 inch Meade starfinder Dobson , and unfortunately all 3 nights were in bad seeing, the 4 stars in the Trapezium were looked like fat cottons.

Even this seeing condition with a little-bit light polluted site , environs nebula structures were seen quite well .

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16 inches dob reflector x 90

date; 3 weekends in DEC. 2012

location; at backyard home in South korea

media; graphite pencils , a white A4 printer paper

inverted image

The Eastern Veil

NGC 6992/6995
NGC 6992/6995

Hey Artists!

I send you the eastern veil in Cygnus seen in my 10 x 50 binocular! (SN – remnant). It was a bit hard to see against the starry sky, but after a time in the dark, I could see it better! Info on my sketch. I used pen and pencil on white paper (inverted).
Location : Trondheim, Norway.

Best wishes from: Per-Jonny Bremseth.

M42 Under a Great Winter Sky

Messier 42/43
Messier 42/43

Object Name: M42
Object Type: Emission Nebula
Location: Mt Nerone, Italy
Date: 05/01/12
Media: pencil on white paper

I took advantage of a surprisingly warm January night to sketch again M42 under a great winter sky. Never seen so many details before in this object, many subtle details couldn’t be represented in this sketch. The interesting thing is that the nebula formed a closed ring with a very faint arch of light reflected by the gas.

Aldo

Hickson 98

Hickson 98
Hickson 98

A clear evening sky with the moon not rising until around 11pm local time saw me out in the observatory with Hickson’s on my mind!

My targets were to be 97 & 98 which are found in Pisces just below the bottom right hand corner of the great square of Pegasus. I engaged in my usual process of ‘star hopping’ the scope from rest position to my target. The smaller the hops, with ‘re-syncing’ at each stop the better my chance of hitting small and faint objects.

…Hickson 98 listed as having NGC 7783 as a searchable member my software database told me it wasn’t listed, so I had to slew the scope manually onto the coordinates given and then search for a suspect galaxy group when I got very close, this didn’t turn out to be too difficult and I soon had the 4 members forming a chaining with a few stars on the monitor screen. A star bright enough to display diffraction spikes headed the chain to the north, all very neat and attractive. It turned out that all 4 members are NGC 7783 A-D so that is likely why I could find it; I probably needed to enter the full nomenclature to find it in the database.

NGC 772 – Galaxy in Aries

NGC 772
NGC 772

Object Name: NGC 772
Location: RA: 01h 59m 20.0s, Dec: +19 ° 00′ 28 ”
Magnitude: 10.3
Surface Brightness: 13.9
Dimensions: 7.02 x 4.03
Constellation: Aries
Type: Galaxy Sb

Observing Location: Bonilla. SPAIN
Date: December 9, 2012.
Time: 22:30 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.: 1° C, Humidity 64%.

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

Culmination: M83

Messier 83
Messier 83

Object Name: M83
Object Type: galaxy
Location: Cherry Springs Dark Sky Park, Pennsylvania
Date: May 16-17, 2012
Media: digital

From my home latitude 42N in hazy Appalachia M83 is difficult to observe, and on my trips south I had only modest aperture with me that could reveal only marginally more. Finally this year I made what I am afraid will remain my definitive observation of M83 for some time. On two nights this May I was observing it with my 16″ ATM/Meade Newtonian from a ridge on the Allegheny Plateau in Pennsylvania (elevation 2400 ft). The galaxy was culminating over an unusually transparent horizon. I measured 21.2 mag/sq arcsec in the area of M83 (it was, as usual, 21.7 overhead). The observation time was approximately two hours, during which I literally had to sit on the ground. The scope-side sketch in ball-pen was a composite of views obtained at various magnifications between 75 and 225 with Pentax and Televue oculars. To produce the drawing presented here, the sketch was scanned, inverted, and finished on a computer using a simulated pencil, blender, airbrush, and filtering. A Wacom Intuos 4 pressure- and tilt-sensitive pen tablet, Corel Sketch Pad software, and Adobe Photoshop were employed at this stage.

Messier 27

Messier 27
Messier 27

Hi, I send my sketch of Messier 27. This is nebula planetary.on Sunday, September 16 I had an exceptionally good observing conditions. For 8 “telescope, you could see clearly the object like a dumbbell to exercise. Addition, animal noises from the nearby meadows are doing an amazing experience during the observation.

Object name: Messier 27

Daniel Stasiak

Psary in POLAND

16th august 2012

Power: 56x

Instrument: Telescope Newton 200/1200 Dobson

Media: Pencil 2B and white paper, GIMP

NGC 246

NGC 246
NGC 246

• Object Name: NGC 246 Nebula Crystal Ball
• Object Type: Planetary Nebula
• Location: Bonilla Spain
• Date: 12/08/2012
• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2, torchon 1 and 130g drawing sheet

Observation notes:
New 10” dob telescope. UHC Filter. Male 6.1 Object Elevation +27 º
Location: Medium difficulty. It takes about 5 minutes with 40x distinguish. It appears as a faint gray smudge.
Brightness: Brightness weak with the contour more dense and its inner surface with less dense areas.
Size: Small, but notable for being a planetary nebula.
Shape: Round, somewhat flattened.
Field: About 50 stars accompany this nebula campo.Visualmente 1 contains several starlets that give a cheerful.
Best picture: With 80x distinguish brightness irregularities on its surface and a small “bite” in the outline.

Greetings to all visitors of this page. PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 22/12/2012