Category: Inverted

A Ghost in the Sky

Hey!

I send you the planetary M. 97, “A ghost in the sky”.

This planetary is faint with diffuse edge, and the “eyes” on > the limit of my telescope.
The central star is too faint for me, but in much larger scopes it > is visible.
M. 97 is often called “The owl”, but to me it looks like a > ghost. The colour was grey.
I used graphite pencil on white paper and inverted.
The observation was made outside Trondheim city, Norway.

Clear sky to all, from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

M42 and Her Companions

Object Name M42, M43 and NGC1977
Object Type Emission and Reflection Nebulaes
Location Budy Dłutowskie (near Lodz) in Poland
Date 01:00, 13th of November 2010
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, color invert)
Equipment: Binocular Celestron Skymaster 25×100
Observing conditions: Seeing 4/5; low light pollution (naked eye range – 6,2 mag)
Hi !
This is sketch of Messier 42 (Great Orion Nebula) and her companions M43 and ‘The Running Man’ (NGC 1977) in Orion Constellation.
During the observation through this big bino, arms of M42 are clearly visible. Structures inside the nebula are also visible but they are really really faint.
M43 and NGC 1977 are shapeless, lighter areas around nebulas central stars.

Greetings,
Łukasz

Spectral Colors of the Hyades

# Object Name: The Hyades
# Object Type: Open Cluster
# Location: Barcelona (Spain)
# Date: 2010-11-05; 23h 30m U.T.
# Media: White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, scanned and colored with Photoshop
# Binoculars: 10×50 with tripod.
# Seeing: 4/5 (5= The best)
# Transparency: Clear. Moderate light pollution. Without Moon
# Constelation: Taurus
# Position: R.A.: 04h 26.9m / Dec: +15º 52′

Hello,

For beginners… and amateur or professional astronomers, the Hyades is an easy and amazing open cluster best viewed with 10×50 binoculars. The nigth of 5th November I enjoyed with the wide varity of spectral colors of the stars belong to this open cluster, so I used the Photohop in order to show these colors in my sketch.

Aldebaran, not a Hyades physical member, is a great esthetic plus.

For more information about the sketch you can visit my blog at:

http://laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com/2010/11/las-hiades-cumulo-abierto-en-taurus.html

Thank you and clear skies for all.

Oscar

Gems of Perseus

Object Name Messier 34 in constellation Perseus
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Tiszaújváros, Hungary
Date 30.10.2010
Media sketch: graphite pencil, final drawing: felt tip pen
My first open cluster-drawing with a felt tip pen.
I used a 80/400 achromatic refractor, with a magnification of 66x. The size of the field is 52′
This quite neglected cluster reminds me of the Owl-cluster, because of the two brigter stars at the cetre.

Árpád Szabó

First Globular Cluster with a Planetary Nebula

Messier 15 (NGC 7078 in Pegasus)

Messier 15 is my favorite bright, compact, globular cluster in the fall night sky. At magnitude 6.2 it is a bright globular target from poor suburban skies. The brightest stars of this target resolve well in a 10 inch scope. This globular is 33,600 light years distant and just filled with ancient stars.
This cluster is one of the densest of the 158 Milky Way globular clusters. It is the very first known to contain a planetary nebula (Pease 1) discovered in 1928 at Mt. Wilson Observatory.
The sketch was made with a wide field 24mm eyepiece at 60 x. The inset contains a higher magnification sketch using a 9mm eyepiece at 160 x.

Sketching:
Messier 15 (NGC 7078)
Date and Time: 11-1-2010, 10:15pm – 11:00pm local time
Scope: 10” f/5.7 Dobsonian. 24 mm and 9 mm eyepieces 60x and 160x
8”x 12” white sketching paper, B and 4B graphite pencils,
blending stump, scanned and inverted
Seeing: Pickering 6/10
Transparency: Average 3/5
Faintest stars visible overhead 4.3
Temperature: 4°C (40°F)
Cluster magnitude: 6.2, brightest member stars 12th magnitude
Distance: 33,600 ly
Location Constellation: Pegasus

Frank McCabe

Stunning City of Stars

Object Name: M 12 (NGC 6218)
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Constellation of Ophiuchus
Location: Talaveruela de la Vera-Cáceres;SPAIN
Date: 17/07/2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted GIMP 2
Telescope: SCT 8″
Eyepiece: 31 mm Hyperion-Aspheric
Mag.: 65X (Original scanned image of higher resolution)

M 12 was with us during the summer nights. Little by little it has been
hiding, but he has left on the retina a beautiful silhouette. Until next
year!.

More information on the sketch:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/2010/09/m-12-cumulo-globular.html

M 12 estuvo con nosotros durante las noches del verano. Poco a poco se ha
ido ocultando, pero nos ha dejado en la retina una bonita silueta. ¡¡Hasta
el año que viene!!.

Mariano Gibaja

Surprisingly Beautiful Giant

Object Name: Jupiter + Io + Ganymede + Callisto
Object Type: Planet
Location: Itajobi – SP – Brazil
Date: 04/10/10 – 00h30min U.T.
Media: 2B graphite mec. pencil on white paper, inverted and bright edited.

Instrument: dobsonian newtonian reflecting telescope
Diameter: 180mm (7.1″)
Focal Lenght: 1080mm (f/D = 6)
Eyepieces:
SP 32mm (34x)
Ortho 12.5mm (86x)
Plossl 10mm (108x)
SP 6mm (180x)

A three elements 2.5x Barlow was combined with all eyepieces, but yielded bad results.
Best images through Ortho 12.5mm and Plossl 10mm.
Planet position:
Az/Alt: 58º/58º
Planet mag.: -2,8

Comments:
It was a cloudy sunday night, it had rained for some days in a row, and it was my last hours on countryside. While I waited for the time to go to take the bus toward São Bernardo, my mother warned me: “The sky is clear now…” I grabbed my telescope and went downstairs, and there it was: a bright Jupiter rising over my neighbor’s house. I kept observing it for almost two hours, and I got some surprises. I wasn’t aware the giant planet had lost one of the equatorial stripes. I saw a bright spot, similar to the Red Spot, but in a different place and smaller. I decided to take some notes [after some researches, I think it’s the Oval BA]. Ten o’clock pm (local), it was time to take the bus. I ended my observation, a great brief night of observation.

Rodrigo Pasiani Costa

Kemble’s Cascade in Camelopardalis

Object Name: Kemble’s Cascade
Object Type: Asterism
Location: Barcelona (Spain)
Date: 2010-10-15; 22h 18m U.T.
Media: White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, and scanned with Photoshop
Binoculars: Celestron Skymaster 15×70 with tripod.
Seeing: 3/5 (5= The best)
Transparency: Clear. Moderate light pollution. Moon 60% iluminated
Constelation: Camelopardalis
Position: R.A.: 03h 57.4m / Dec: +63º 04′
This asterism in Camelopardalis was discovered by Fray Lucian J. Kemble in 1980. In his own words: “A beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the Northeast down to the open cluster NGC1502. Great asterism for binoculars with the aid of a dark sky”.

Best regards.

Oscar.