Dear ASOD!
This is old, but very beautiful sketch.
Kisújszállás (Hungary)
Date: 2009. 07. 27.
Seeing: 8/10
Transparency: 10/10
Equipment: 150/1200 Newton
Mag.: 240x
FOV: 14.5′
Technique: pencil, graphite pencil, white paper, inverted,
Thank you,
János Tóth
The Andromeda Galaxy & Companion Messier 32
August 11th, 2010
Location: Connecticut, USA (in an orange/red zone)
Drawn with black, grey, and white graphite colored pencil on white paper, with a black uni-ball pen for stars. Photographed with a Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and imported to Photoshop for inverting and touchups.
At time of drawing transparency was below average and so I really had to work hard to eke out any semblance of detail in M31. Aperture helped – I used a 203mm Newtonian for this drawing, even so, the one dust lane was only visible with averted vision. You may notice a strange lack of stars in the field, there are two reasons behind this: one is that too many stars become a distraction and two is that I generally only use them as reference points for my sketch.
Paul Schneider
Open Cluster M 7 Ptolemy’s Little Cloud
This open cluster M 7 (NGC 6475) is of my summer favorites. On the first evening in July last month I made a sketch of this open cluster but I was less than pleased with the outcome. On Friday evening August 6, 2010, I made another attempt to capture the cluster as it crossed the meridian at 9:45 pm local time.
From my location this cluster is never more than 14° above the visible horizon, yet it is an impressive object in the eyepiece despite the thick atmosphere so close to the horizon. It was described as a “little cloud” following behind the stinger of the scorpion by Ptolemy nearly 1900 years ago. At about 800 light years away and slowly getting closer to us, this young 200 million year old collection of associated stars spanning 20 light years across is an impressive sight in binoculars or telescope.
Sketching:
M 7 in Scorpius
R.A. 17h 55m, Dec. -34° 49′
10″ inch f/5.7 21mm eyepiece at 69x
Sky conditions were good for transparency
Date and Time: 8/7/2010; 2:40 -3:15 UT
9″ x 12″ white Strathmore Windpower smooth paper, # 2HB, # 4HB graphite pencils, plastic Pink Pearl eraser.
After scanning the drawing was cropped and inverted Using Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Frank McCabe
-Messier 8 / NGC 6523
-Emission Nebula
-Connecticut, USA
-August 6, 2010
-Black and grey colored pencil on white paper, black uni-ball pen to accentuate stars, and eraser to help smudge nebulosity. Drawing photographed with Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and imported to Photoshop for inverting, and slight blurring to “nebulize” the actual emissions while keeping stars intact.
Observed in an orange/yellow zone with a 203mm Newtonian. M8 was sketched as seen with a Lumicon UHC filter which created an extremely noticeable improvement in the extent of the region’s nebulosity. Transparency was judged to be about a seven out of ten.
Paul Schneider
Object name: NGC 4038/4039 (Arp 244), in Corvus
Object type: Interacting Galaxies
Location: Texas Star Party, Fort Davis, Texas, USA
Date: 12th May 2010
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, scanned then inverted in
Photoshop Elements 6.0
Equipment: 36″ (91.5cm) f5 Dob, 13mm Televue Ethos (352x),
Conditions: NELM 6.9, Good seeing (Ant II), transparency II-III (where I
=excellent, IV = poor)
I was at the 2010 Texas Star Party and got the opportunity to use a
variety of large scopes, from an 18″ up to a 48″. This sketch of the
Antennae was made while observing with Larry Mitchell’s 36″ f5 Obsession.
Notes: Huge in the eyepiece, bright and full of detail. HII regions are
bright and the tidal tails are seen with relative ease. 4038 is the
larger of the two and its tidal tail is more obvious than that of 4039
which is barely seen.
Faith Jordan
Hey !
I send you M. 101, “The open pinwheel”.
This is a very difficult galaxy with bright nucleus, but very
faint spiralarms.First I could observe a circular , big halo around the nucleus, but
after a time of observation I detected brighter areas in this diffuse halo.
I think the sketch shows the best I can do with this galaxy with my telescope!
I used pencil on white paper and inverted. The observation was made outside Trondheim city, Norway. More info
on my sketch!
Thank you very much for your comments!
Best wishes from Per-Jonny Bremseth, and very clear sky to you all!!
This is my sketch of M27 (NGC 6853), the Dumbbell Nebula, sometimes called Apple Core.
This planetary nebula is probaly the best one to show for the first-time-on-scope ones who want to know about the future of our Sun. It’s the brightest, bigger and sharper one, just Hellix surpases it, but not in surface brightness nor in contrast.
The drawing was done just before the Swan one published in ASOD on July 21st, 2010, and also shows how fast the sky quality can change in a few hours and with some degrees more above the horizon.
It was rendered on Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, on July 9th, 22:25UT, with graphite bar and stump in white paper, then scaned, inverted, and level balanced. I used my 10′ dobson with a Baader Hyperion 17mm (75x 55’FOV).
I encourage every observer to draw what they see, just because they’ll see even more as they do. Slowly, more people are joining the “pencil crew” here, and I hope you will see more results in those pages soon.
Jorge Arranz
2010 July 7, 0408 UT
M57, NGC6720, the Ring Nebula
Constellation Lyra, Planetary Nebula Type 4+3, ~1500-2000 light years away
0>71”, m8.8v
PCW Memorial Observatory, Zanesville, Ohio USA – Erika Rix
16” Zhumell, 12mm Burgess, 3x Barlow, magnification 450x
Sketch created scopeside with white photocopy paper, #2 pencil,
ultra-fine black marker. Template from www.perezmedia.com.
M57 never fails to please, just like other objects such as the Double
Cluster, M13 and M27. This is the first time I’ve used the 16” on this
planetary nebula and took advantage of the aperture to increase
magnification. I was particularly interested in looking for structure
within the ring as well as a richer star field. It most likely wasn’t
the optimal magnification to use, but seeing was rock steady and I was
itching to give it a try.
This object resembled a scrunched up American football, not quite as
oblong, but most certainly not completely round. The two ends were
fainter than the middle portions of the ring, which had strands of
brightened areas to the NW and SE sections of the ring. There was one
particular area to the northern area of the ring that could have passed
for a star, but not defined. It was more or less just a bright spot
within the ring. The center of the nebula was a hazy darker gray, also
appearing oblong. I couldn’t detect the ever-elusive central star.
Erika Rix
I use:
Crayola Cerulean pencil for plage
Crayola Aqua Green pencil for proms
White 20# paper
I scan into photoshop and invert.
Blue skies,
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This is my sketch for M17(NGC 6618) , also known as Omega Nebula or, more descriptive, Swan Nebula.
This emission nebula is probably, after Orion one, the one that offers more detail and structures to the eye of a northern observer. This was not the best sight I have got from this faint structure, but I did my sketch anyway, for the star party AstroBonilla 2010.
It was rendered in Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, 2010/078/10 00:30 UT using graphite bars on white paper. Then scanned, inverted and a bit of levels balance. The telescope was a 10′ newton in dobson mount, with a Baader Hyperion 17mm eyepiece (75x 55′ FOV) and a UHC filter.
More details about the drawing, the nebula, and link to the original raw drawing in my blog (in spanish) at http://qfwfqestuvoalli.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/m-17-nebulosa-del-cisne/
Jorge Arranz