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Mars in the “Beehive”

Mars moving through the Beehive Cluster
Sketches and Details by Giorgio Bonacorsi

Hi all , how are you? I see yesterday the last sketch of Jeremy Perez and i say to myself: “I made the same sketch from home in the same day!” and i decide to sent you my last four sketches of “Mars in the Beehive” made with my bino bresser 10×50. I observe Mars also with my refractor 80/1000 at 333x and i see only the polar white zone but no partycular of surface.The best image of this event was throug bino 10×50, very stereoscopic and magnificent vision.
This is all for this moment.Thank you for your kind words, i’m o.k. at the moment, i hope next to sent you my new sketches of deep sky with my Dobson 10″.
Clear sky and good new sketches to all artists!!!

Ciao, Giorgio.

Name:Giorgio Bonacorsi
Site:Pergola,Marche,Center Italy
Date:from 31 October to 3 November
Instrument:Bino Bresser 10×50
Seeing:Good
Temperature:Cold,humidity,no wind.

Mars moving through the Beehive Cluster
Sketches and Details by Giorgio Bonacorsi

Mars Cruises Through the “Beehive”

Planet Mars and M44 (Beehive Cluster)
Sketch and Details by Juan Perez (Juanchin)

Object: Planet Mars and M44 (Beehive Cluster)
Date: November 03, 2009
Time: 0215 LST / 0915 UT
Location: El Mirage Arizona USA
Instrument: Orion 25 x 100 binoculars 2.5 Deg. FOV
Magnitude: Mars +0.5 M44 varying from 6 to 10 or so
Weather: Clear skies with a full Moon, calm winds and temperature of 60 Deg. F

Comments: I wanted to sketch this view a few days earlier when Mars was on the opposite of the cluster. Working the graveyard shift doesn’t allow me to take advantage of the best sky gazing opportunities when they present themselves.For this sketch, I had to wait until my days off from work. I would preffered to have caught Mars cutting through the cluster but I missed that chance. So here it is, Mars is still about 1/2 degree away from the open cluster, shining at +0.5 magnitude and heading in a East Northeasternly direction.The cluster itself contains a select few stars ranging from magnitude 6 to 10 or dimmer. I noted a couple of pale yellow stars but couldn’t distinguish any other subtle colors since I had the Beaver Moon in all its splendor right above me. I hope you all enjoy this sketch as much as I did. Juanchin

Beauty Doubled

The Double Cluster: NGC 869 and NGC 884
Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró

The Double Cluster: NGC 869 and NGC 884

This observation and sketch was made near the dawn hour in the Kiskun Astro Camp near the village of Jászszentlászló, Hungary. As the Sun was already approaching the southern horizon, the NELM was getting worse very quickly. Therefore I’ve decided to sketch something easy that is made of many bright stars. All of a sudden I’ve picked the famous Double Cluster, which turned out to be challenging to sketch but with plenty of bright stars. So, I was racing with the Sun, since Venus was already high above the horizon. Under country skies, this pair of open clusters can be seen to the naked eye as a small fuzzy spot near the easily recognizable W-shape of the constellation Cassiopeia. It’s one of the most remarkable objects of the Northern Hemisphere, so I can’t really imagine why it was not included in the famous catalogue of Messier. From my home country it is a circumpolar object, so it can be seen through the entire year. It’s so easy, that it can be resolved with the smallest telescopes or binoculars, therefore it is great catch for everyone. SQM reading: 20.91 m/arcsec^2, 9°C.

Date / Time 2009.07.26 1:30 UT Telescope: 12” f/5 Newtonian 45x FOV: 1° Seeing: 7/10 Transparency: 3/5 Object / Location: Perseus Double Cluster, R.A. 2h 21m; Dec. 57º 12’ Sketching Location: Jászszentlászló, Hungary

The Milky Way’s Dancing Partners

M31 and M32, The Great Andromeda Galaxy and Satellite Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Chris Lee

Object Name : M31 and M32
Object Type : Galaxy
Location Bristol, UK
Date: 17th Oct 2009
Sketched at the scope (Nexstar 8SE) and modifed using Photoshop
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did sketching it!

Chris

A Peculiar Pair in Pegasus

Arp86 (NGC7752 and 7753); interacting galaxy pair in Pegasus
Sketch and Details by Jeff Young

Number 86 from Halton Arp’s catalog of peculiar galaxies, this interacting pair is a bit like a miniature M51. An arm extends out from the left of the core of the larger galaxy (through the dim field star) and then curves down to meet the smaller companion at right angles to its elongation. Sadly, this arm was too dim to record with my instrument.

Arp86 (NGC7752 and 7753); interacting galaxy pair in Pegasus

HB pencil on Daler-Rowney cartridge paper; scanned and inverted in Photoshop

16” f/10 Mak-Cass on AP1200GTO mount; 17mm T4 Nagler; 235X

Sketched from County Louth, Ireland

Needle in a Cosmic Haystack

NGC 4565, The Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices sketch #1
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Please double click on sketch for a larger version.

This sketch was made on Astronomical Meeting “Bieszczady 2009” in Roztoki Górne in Beshyadas, one of the darkest place in Poland, the venue of the Polish amateur astronomers.

NGC 4565, The Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices sketch #2
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Please double click on sketch for a larger version.

Object: NGC 4565 “Needle”
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with Vixen LVW 13mm
Weather: Excellent. Clear dark sky.
Seeing: 5/5
Transparency: 5/5
Place: Roztoki Górne, Beshyadas, Poland
Date: 17th April 2009
Technique: 1 – Graphite pencil with GIMP 2 working
2 – White pastels on black paper
Observer: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

Near and Far

NGC 6946 (galaxy) and NGC 6939 (open cluster) in Cepheus
Sketch and Details by Andrew Phethean

Objects: NGC 6946 (galaxy) and NGC 6939 (open cluster) in Cepheus
Location: Kielder, UK
Date: 17/10/2009

Hello, and thanks for featuring my Copernicus sketch some weeks back – I was very proud!

I was recently attending a star party in Kielder, UK. I picked NGC 6946 from an observing guide and when it came into the field of view, I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two objects in the FOV. I thought they were both galaxies, because they both appeared smooth and nebulous. However, on checking the observing guide again it appears one of the objects was an open cluster, and sure enough I could make out a mottled texture and resolved some stars in one of the objects, while the other was entirely smooth. I was so delighted I decided to make a sketch. I may not see this charming pair for a long time as my home observing site is not in favour of such faint galaxies. NGC 6946 has a surface brightness of mag. 13!

The scope used was a Skywatcher 120mm ED refractor, and the sketch was made in an A5 WHSmith spiral bound sketch book with graphite pencils. Sketch was then photographed. The inverted image has been adjusted to resemble the view through the telescope, and is consequently quite dim.

Cheers
Andrew Phethean, Aberdeen

Aries Diamonds

Double star Gamma Ari
Sketch and Details by Milosz Guzowski

Hi,

today I want to present a double star i Aries.

– Object Name (Gamma Ari)

– Object Type (Double Strar)

– Location (Poland/Białuty)

– Date (16.08.2009)

– Scope (10″ Newtonian+10mm plossl)

– Mediums (Graphite pencil on white paper+GIMP processing)

Necklace of Nebulae

The Pavo Group of Galaxies
Sketch and Details by Scott Mellish

From left to right: IC 4970/NGC 6872/ PGC 64439/ NGC 6876/ NGC 6877/
NGC 6880/ IC 4981
Galaxies
24/07/09
Ilford NSW Australia
56cm f5 Dobsonian
Field: 27′
Magnification: 218x
Sky quality meter reading: 21:64

This has always been a nice collection of galaxies to visit in Pavo.
Sometimes with a sketch it can be a bit confusing sorting out which
galaxies are which.
Hopefully I have got all their designations correct.

Scott Mellish

Caught In the Triangle

M33 (NGC 598), The Triangulum Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Ignisdei (Robert Twarogal)

Hi!

My first approach to the galaxy in the Triangle.
Yesterday evening there was a light frost at my garden, and the clear sky,

So I’ve eagerly started to sketch an object, to whom I’ve never started
before -M33
Unfortunately, I only endowed 152mm achromatic refractor with Petzval
corrector, which in my opinion showed the galaxy better than 8″ mirror!
I used to SWAN 25mm (wide frame) and 13mm SWA, UW (to detail.)
The Triangulum now (at 23.00 o’clock) hangs on an effective height….
The sketch took me about 45 minutes.
These 10-11 mag stars, and the holes between the spiral arms……Excuse
me again, alchemy of looking ..

Yours Robert!

Object Name: The Triangulum Galaxy M33
Object Type (Galaxy)
Location (Oborniki, Poland)

Date (13-10-2009)
Equipment; 6” Petzval, achromatic refractor + Heq5, WO SWAN 25mm, SWA UW
13mm

Author: Ignisdei (Robert Twarogal)