Good morning,
I sketched Garradd last Wednesday. It is my first sketch of comet.
Garradd – Tom Perdoch
C/2009 P1 (Garradd)
Comet
Hlucin (CZ)
27/07/2011 _ 22.30 – 22.45
Pencil on white paper – inverted in Photoshop
It’s my first sketch of comet in my life. I saw this comet first time. I use Dobson 8″ and Meade 16mm SWA. It was first good night in July. I hope it won’t be the last sketch of this comet.
This is my first attempt at sketching a star field.
Object Name: Alpha Lyra – Epsilon 1 & 2 Lyra
Object Type: Double Star
Location: Locust Grove, VA
Date: 17 July 0130 UTC
Media: Graphite #2 Pencil on white paper. Photoshop inversion, enhancement.
Instrument: Oberwerk 15 x 70mm Binoculars
Weather: Clear/Partly Cloudy, 80 degF, Seeing 4/5, Transparency 4/5
Notes: Alpha Lyra drew my attention right at the end of twilight, and it was a beautiful sight with the Epsilon 1&2 double nearby. I could not quite discriminate (split) Zeta 1&2 to the lower right of Alpha, but I could tell it was elongated showing a hint that it was double.
Jerry Hubbell
Lake of the Woods Observatory (MPC I24)
Locust Grove, VA
Object Type : Open cluster
Location : Petfurdo, Hungary 47°10’N, 18°07’E
Date : 22. Jun. 2011
Media : black pencil on white paper, digitally enhanced with GIMP2.6
A small, but beautiful open cluster in the Cygnus…
Best regards,
Laszlo Nemeth
Object Type: H-alpha prominence
Location: Deventer, The Netherland
Date: July 15, 2011
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper
On July 15, I made the first sketch through my new 70mm h-alpha solar telescope. The scope showed a lot of detail, but a large prominence on the northwest limb was the most stunning feature. It was large, wide, and it changed shape within minutes. I made two sketches, one at 12.00UT and one 20 minutes later, at 12.20UT. The prom clearly changed shape an structure a bit and the base was much wider. It looked as if the prominence was falling back to the sun!
I sketched with graphite pencil on white paper, inverted the sketch and pulled all the levels to “red”) with Photoshop.
Kind regards,
Roel Weijenberg
www.roelblog.nl
The STAR (Small Telescope Asterism Roster) list was started by Philip S. Harrington and published in his books “Touring The Universe Through Binoculars” and “The Deep Sky – An Introduction”. The catalogue counts 28 asterisms of different size and interest. Some are easy to recognize, others need a lot of imagination.
STAR 26 is a really nice asterism in Cygnus. His brightest star (at the tail) is 29 Cygni. Can you see the red necked emu? When you visit this asterism you will see more stars in the EP… I didn’t sketch any surrounding stars. And because honesty is the best policy, I copied the figure from internet.
More information about STAR: http://www.ssoastro.org/STAR_List.htm
Clear skies
Jef De Wit
Object Name: STAR 26
Object Type: asterism
Location: Hove, Belgium (51°°09’ N 4°28’ E)
Date and time: 26 June 2011 around 23.00 UT
Equipment: Orion Optics UK 12” Dobson
Eyepieces: 35mm Celestron Ultima (FOV +/- 75’ and magnification 34x)
SQM: 19.1
Medium: graphite pencil HB/n°2, fineliner, scanned and inverted, process with Paint
Object Type: Bright Nebula
Location: Seyedabad, Iran
Date: May 26, 2011
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, Inverted in Photoshop
Object Name: M 92, NGC 6341
Type: Globular Cluster
Constellation: Hercules.
Observing Location: Pioz. Guadalajara. SPAIN.
Date: June 29, 2011
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Sketch processed with GIMP 2.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt5
Eyepiece: 13 mm Hyperion (155X). FOV: 0’44º
MALE: 5,06 Temp.: 13ºC
More information about the sketch and M 92 in:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/
Object name:Eastern veil nebulae(NGC6992/NGC6995),RA 20h 56m 24s Dec +31d 43m 00s
Object type:Supernova remnant(Nebulae).
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 cirrus clouds.
The Veil Nebula was discovered visually by William Herschel in 1784 with his 18-inch reflecting telescope. The visible portions of the Veil Nebula appear to be segments of an expanding gas cloud. The gas cloud is believed to be the remnant of a supernova explosion, possibly 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Clear sky
Banafsheh Yaghoubi
Object Name: M53,
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, USA
Date: 06/02/11
Time: 01:30 CDT
Conditions: Clear; Seeing 4/5; Transparency 3/5
Equipment: 280mm SCT, 22mm EP
Medium: Graphite pencil and Blending Stump on white paper. Scanned and color inverted.
This tightly bound spherical collection of over 100,000 rather old stars is roughly 220 light years in diameter, its found in the constellation Coma Berenices. The Globular Cluster was nicely resolved using this scope from a pretty dark site that is some 10 miles out of town.
John Eaccarino
Object Name: M 92 (NGC 6341)
Object Type: Globular cluster
Location: Bátorliget Hungary
Date: 21/06/2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, digital tools
