Category: Inverted

NGC 6960 – Veil Nebula West

NGC 6960
NGC 6960

Type: Nebula (Supernova Remnant)
Constellation: Cygnus.
Observing Location: Talaveruela de la Vera. Cáceres. SPAIN.
Date: Jule 10, 2011
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Sketch processed with GIMP 2.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt5
Eyepiece: 31 mm Hyperion (65X).
Filter: UHC
NELM: 5,87 Temp.: 19ºC

More information about the sketch and NGC 6960 in:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/

A Small Cloud in the Book of Fixed Stars

Messier 31 and Companions
Messier 31 and Companions

Objects name:
-Andromeda Galaxy(Messier 31/NGC224).
-Messier 32/NGC221,it is a satellite of Andromeda Galaxy.
-Messier110/NGC205,it is a Satellite of Andromeda galaxy.
Object type:
-M31: Spiral galaxy(SA(s)b).
-M32:Dwarf elliptical galaxy (cE2).
-M110:Dwarf elliptical galaxy(E5pec).
Location:Seyed abad-Firuzkuh-Iran(35º 38′ N , 52º 22′ E) .
Date:2011/07/01.
Time:2:30 local time (+3:30 GMT).
Media:Graphic pencil white paper-inverted in photoshop.
Equipment:200mm Dobsonian telescope-f/6-focal length 1200,Sky glow filter.
Eyepiece:30mm, Field:80º.
Conditions:Clear with some Light pollution.

The earliest recorded observation of the Andromeda Galaxy was in 964 CE by the Persian astronomer, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi), who described it as a “small cloud” in his Book of “Fixed Stars”. Other star charts of that period have it labeled as the Little Cloud.

Clear sky
Banafsheh Yaghoubi

The Path of Vesta

Asteroid Vesta
Asteroid Vesta

Object Name: Vesta
Object Type: Asteroid
Location: Itajobi, SP, Brazil
21°19’W
41°03’S
+453m
Date: 21-30/07/2011 (all sketches around 02h00 U.T.)
Media: 2B 0.5mm graphite pencil on white paper, scanned so inverted
Instrument: Binoculars Celestron 10×50 (7°)
Observer: Rodrigo Pasiani Costa

From July 21st to 30th I could observe the brighest asteroid, Vesta, crossing the night sky. Night after night it appeared higher in the sky, always as bright as the surrounding brighest stars, showing its path among them. It was the first time I observed an asteroid, and I didn’t know they move so quickly.
This is an animation with all the sketches, one after another, showing Vesta’s trip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up29hcX2z3Y
I hope you enjoy the sketch, and the animation. Thanks you all, and dark skies!
Rodrigo Pasiani Costa

Messier 5

Messier 5
Messier 5

Here is my sketch of the globular cluster M5. The sketch was done at the eyepiece June 19, 2011 at 2253DST using my 200mm dob and an 8mm EP yeilding 150x magnification. I used graphite on white paper and then reversed the image and cleaned it up in Corel Paintshop Pro. I was really struck by the three dimensional quality of this cluster when viewed with averted vision. The fainter stars on the NW edge of the core POP into view and really seem to be well in front of the cluster’s core of unresolved stars. The sketch was done from my backyard observatory in Orleans, Ontario, Canada.

Clear skies,
Gordon Webster

New Guest on the Sky

C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
C/2009 P1 (Garradd)

Location: Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date: 05.08.2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope: Columbus 13” (320/1387 Newtonian telescope) + Antares Speers Waler I 14mm
Seeing: 2/5
Transparency: 1/5
NELM: 6 mag

Hello

New guest on our sky – comet C/2009 P1 Garradd. She will stay with us in next months. Now we can observe this object in Pegasus constellation (near to M15). Quite bright head with wide weak tail (8-8,5mag). In next month brightness of this comet will be constantly grow.

Clear sky
Łukasz

Comet Visits a Globular Cluster

C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
C/2009 P1 (Garradd)

Hi,

The other night a visitor to the inner solar system, Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd), appeared to make its own visit to M15, one of the brightest globular clusters in the northern sky. I say “appeared to” because M15 is actually over 33 thousand light years distant.

Comet Garradd was beautiful to see as it glided past the glob over the two nights I was able to view it. The soft glow of the moderately condensed comet head contrasted nicely with the bright knot of stars in M15 as the fan shaped tail swept faintly to the southeast, a sight I’ve tried to reproduce with this sketch.

Garradd will be making more visits over the next few weeks as it travels past the constellations Delphinus and Sagitta and the Coathanger asterism. Catch it if you are able!

C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
Comet
Twin Sugars Observatory Friars Hill, WV USA
August 1st & 2nd, 2011
Graphite pencils on white sketch paper, inverted digitally

Regards to all,

Michael Rosolina

Southern Jewels

NGC 4755
NGC 4755

Hello

Here, out of the oven, my new sketch of the open cluster “jewel box”, the NGC4755, also known as Kappa Crucis.
This open cluster is located in the constellation of the cruise, or crux, a few arcminutes of the star beta Crucis.
The NGC4755 has a magnitude of 4.3 is to 7,600 light years from the sun and has an angular size of 10 arc minutes.
It is visible to the naked eye, easily viewed with a 10×50 binoculars.
It’s a pretty crowded and is a champion of the star party audience that occur below 25 ° south latitude.

Thanks

Object data:

Object name: “jewel box”, the NGC4755, also known as Kappa Crucis;

Object type: Open cluster . This open cluster is located in the constellation of the cruise, or crux, a few arcminutes of the star beta Crucis;

Location: Tuiuti city, São Paulo , Brasil;

Date: 28Jul11 22:00h local , 01:00 UTC 29Jul11;

Media: The draft was done using pencil Staedtler Mars lumograph H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B and 8B. Canson 120g/cm3 white paper, with reversed colors in GIMP software.

Telescope reflector 10 inch, f4.7, dobsonian GSO, eyepiece 15mm superview (afov 68°) GSO, finderscope 8×50 erector prism GSO.

22° C , seeing good, light wind, little light pollution to the east, no moon
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