Messier M5
Observed at Bristol UK
5th June 2010; 00:30am using Nexstar 8SE
Sketched at the scope over 30 mins using a black on white template and transfered to Photoshop. I could observe several coils of stars around a bright and mottled core with sparks of light (resolved stars) across the disk and at the edges under the highest magnification.
Chris Lee
A Perfect Ring Planetary in Scorpius NGC 6337
Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard
Location: R.A. 17h 22m; Dec. -38° 29’ (J2000)
Translation from French with Google Translator
An extraordinary adventure with the club. We started three weeks in May 2010 in , a journey of 5,500 km from to San Pedro, making many raids on the slopes of the Andean altitude. The sky was not perfect as we expected. But in the camps on foot domes of La Silla Paranal or lost in the middle of the pampas, we made some excellent observations with our own travel gear. For my part, the use of T400-c is a real pleasure, gear totally adapted to this kind of situation….. NGC 6337 is watching shamelessly, provided you push the magnification on this ring almost perfect.
Serge Vieillard
A Globular Cluster in the Eagle (NGC 6760)
Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró
Faint, diffuse globular cluster with a perfect circular shape and a core that’s getting brighter only very gently. For me it was not resolveable, although it shows a faint star on its southern side, that may be a part of the cluster. Unfortunately the Jászszentlászló sky that was excellent this far was now ruined by the quickly increasing humidity in the air. Fortunately meanwhile this happened, the seeing got much better, so it made me a little happier on this almost Winter-like night. SQM reading: 21.20 m/arcsec^2, 9°C.
Right ascension: 19h 12m; Declination: 1° 3′
Constellation:
Date/time: 2009.07.25 23:45 UT
Equipment: 12″ f/5 Newtonian
FoV: 19′; Magnification: 167x
Seeing: 7/10; Transparency: 3/5
Location:
Observer: Ferenc Lovró
Object Name: M 3; NGC 5272 (Constellation of Canes Venatici)RA: 13h 42m; DE:
+28º 23′
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Bonilla (Cuenca) SPAIN
Date: 15 May 2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted GIMP 2
Telescope: SCT 8″
Eyepiece: Baader Hyperion 13 mm
Mag.: 155X
M 3 is one of the brightest globular clusters and contains half a million
stars. It has many variable star RR Lyr type. It is located at a distance of
35,000 light years. It is a beautiful spectacle offered by the sky.
Mariano Gibaja
Sketch information:
Object name: A piece of Sagittarius
Scope: Skywatcher dobs 1200/200 + SWA 32mm
Place: Poland, Silesia, Skrzyszow
Seeing: 8/10 Transparency: 4/5
Date and time: 10.07.2010r, 23:50PM (21:00)
Technique: Pencil, GIMP
Author: Marek Płonka (Poland, Silesia)
Note: I’ve always used only pencil.
I use GIMP only to improvement brightness, contrast, resize and crop
images.Under clear, summer skies I was able to sketch this nice view.
I drew this picture moving from star to star, taking the view and sketching.
In my location there are still not dark nights, but I hope, you enjoy my view.
Marek Płonka
Tom Corstjens
Observer: Tom Corstjens
Object Name: IC 5146 – Cocoon Nebula – Caldwell 19
Object Type: H-II Emission nebula
Location: Zillebeke, Belgium (during Starnights event – see www.starnights.be)
Date: 23 August 2009 – 0h25 UT
Media: graphite pencil on white paper, scanned & digital negative.
Equipment: Trusstube Dobson 220mm F/5.9
Eyepiece: Televue Plössl 17mm
Magnification: 77x
Filter: Lumicon UHC 1.25 inch
Seeing / transparency: good
Comments:
Very diffuze emission nebula, situated around 2 bright stars with most detail on north side. Different dark structures visible with long use of off-axis observation technique.
A nice starcluster can be found north of the Cocoon nebula, at low power the dark nebula Barnard 168 is very obvious!
Other sketches from the author can be found at: www.deepskylog.org (select language “Nederlands”, since my comments are in Dutch)
Enjoy & best wishes
Lovro 2 (Asterism)
Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró
A fairly large asterism made up of stars of similar brightness and colour. It clearly separates from its environs, however it is only an asterism and not an open cluster according to the data I could put my hands on. It resembles either a double question mark, or the flames of a large torch. So far I couldn’t find any catalogue that listed this object as an asterism, so I decided to use the designation of Lovro 2. However, please not that this is a totally unofficial designation.
Right Ascension: 0h 22m, Declination: 24° 50′
Constellation: Hercules
Date/time: 2009.09.16 00:00 UT
Equipment: 12″ f/5 Newtonian
FoV: 1°, Magnification and filter(s): 71x
Seeing: 6/10 Transparency: 3/5
Location: Nádasdladány, Hungary
Observer: Ferenc Lovró
Hi!
That night the sky was full the stars, although we do not have an
astronomical night.
M11 The Wild Duck is a typical summer open cluster.
I used two glasses: Swan 25mm for a detail (112x power) and Hyperion
aspheric 31mm (power x 90.3) who gave me the field of view
M11 containing about 2900 stars, but we usually see the brighter
stars,
forming a triangle like flock of flying ducks.
Robert
author: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
Object Name: The Wild Duck
Object Type (open cluster )
Location (Oborniki, Poland)
Date (04-06-2010)
Equipment: 11″ Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope + Heq5,
Eyepiece: WO Swan 25mm, Hyperion aspheric 31mm
Object Name: M 13 and NGC 6027 (Constellation of Hercules)
Object Type: Globular Cluster and Galaxy
Location: Bonilla-Cuenca SPAIN
Date: May 15, 2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted GIMP 2
Telescope: SCT 8″
Eyepiece: 31 mm Hyperion-Aspheric
Mag.: 65X
Mariano Gibaja
Spanish-English translation using Google Language Tools:
The globular cluster M 13 is my favorite to teach my friends. When my
friends look through the eyepiece you always hear the cry: Ohh! How
beautiful! No doubt this cluster is of the most beautiful and
impressive from the sky. It is located at a distance of 24,000 light years.
When I look at M 13 I never forget the small galaxy NGC 6027. It’s very nice to
see a galaxy and a globular cluster at a time.
Subject: ASOD: McNaught’s Best View Yet ? – ” Juanchin ”
Object : Comet C/2009 R1 McNaught
Date : June 15, 2010
Time : 03:00 LST / 10:00 UT
Location : Wickenburg Arizona USA
Instrument : Orion 25 x 100 FOV 2.5 Deg.
Magnitude : ~ 6.5
Weather : Dark and clear sky, slightly gusty winds, cool upper 70’s
with a chance of Sagittarids! : )
Comments :
A major prediction for this comet was that perhaps being a first
timer to swing around our Sun, it might have a dramatic outburst
display like that of Comet Holmes.
Last week of June the 9th, I sketched McNaught while it passed by
M34, but the Moon was the factor that was robbing me of some extra
details. Details that tonight
were more noticeable. The ionic tail is longer, I’d say at least
over 1.5 Degrees. A fine thin tail stretching subtlely into a North-
Northwest direction. Also, what I believed was
the dust tail, a spur emanating from the coma and shooting towards
the West was visible. It kind of pointed towards the bright yellow
star of Delta Persei.
The coma itself showed its greenish tint along with a very bright
white core. I’m not very precise on determining the size of the
coma but I’d say it was in the vicinity of 10 arcminutes.(Someone
can help me here, will appreciate) ; ) I noticed the comet had
shifted during the course of about 1 hour. A star North of the
comet and grazing the tail was now on the the Southwest side and
embedded close to the dust tail. By a wild guess again, this comet
had traveled almost its own coma diameter in that 1 hour time lapse.
This will be my last chase for comet McNaught, twilight starts
creeping very fast soon after 11:00 UT. It hinders any chance to
see the comet rise higher and the dawn light starts washing
everything away. As the days progress the comet will be lower and
lower into the horizon and finally out of sight. I enjoyed every
bit of observation and I hope there are more of you out there who
did the same and sketched it.
Wishing all clear and dark skies,
Juanchin
P.S. I only saw about 3 Sagittarids that night, very bright with
