Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
Sketch and Details by Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
Hy!
There are charming couple of lovers, at the road leading to the cottage Cepheus .
Cluster and galaxy … NGC 6946 +6939
Best regards
Robert
Object Name : NGC 6946 +6939
Object Type: Open cluster and Galaxy
Location: Poland/ eastern Poland ,
Date: 20.08.2009 y, and 30.08.2009 y,
Equipment: Meade Light Bridge 12”, and SWAN 25mm. and UWA SW 13mm
Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
NGC 7662, The Blue Snowball, a planetary nebula in Andromeda
Sketch and Details by Oscar Ll. (Nickname: almach)
NGC7662 is one of my favorite planetary nebula for one simple reason: I can see a delicate blue color on it, something unusual in deep sky objects. The sketch was made with a HB2 pencil with a little help of a white snowball cotton… on white paper. After this, inverted, colored the planetary and modified some paremeters with Photoshop Elements.
For the main sketch I used 69x. With this magnification I can see clearly the color. With 250x (the theorical useful magnification limit of my telescope) I can see more detail of its structure, but I “loose” the planetary color.
For more details of my observation you can visit my blog.
NGC 7662 – The Blue Snowball (planetary nebula)
Date and Time: 2009-09-10, 21h 25m UT
Scope: Celestron Nexstar 5i, SC 5″ (127mm). 18mm (69x) and 5mm (250x) eyepieces
White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, and scanned and inverted with Photoshop
Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)
Transparency: Some clouds. Moderate light pollution.
Location Constellation: Andromeda
Position: R.A. 23 h 26 min
Dec. +42° 33?
Thank you and best regards.
Oscar
The Great Andromeda Galaxy and satellite galaxy
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla
Hello!
This is sketch of the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, Messier 31 from the Tapadla Defile – one of the main meeting place of observers from Wroclaw and parts.
Object: Messier 31 – Great Galaxy of Andromeda (with Messier 32).
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with Antares W70 25mm.
Date: August 20th 2009.
Place: Tapadla Defile (Tąpadła). Bottom Silesia. Poland
Weather: Excellent. Seeing 4,5/5. Transparency 5/5.
Technique: Graphite pencil.
Tooling: GIMP2.
M45, The Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus
Sketch and Details by Tomás Ruiz Lara
This Sketch was done with a common pencil and with cotton to sketch the nebulae around the stars (Taygeta, Maia, Electra and Alcyone).
Equipment used, 114 mm newtonian reflector f/8 with a Vixen Plössl 32 mm (28x).
What to say about M 45? The most famous open cluster of the northern hemisphere. The vision with an eyepiece with low magnification is spectacular.
Seeing: 3/5
Phase of the Moon: Gibbous
Object Name: M 45, The Pleiades
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Úbeda, Jaén, Spain.
Date 25 – Sept – 2007
Tomás Ruiz Lara
NGC 7009, The Saturn Nebula in Aquarius
Sketch and Details by Frank McCabe
Saturn Nebula NGC 7009
This planetary nebula was one of the first “nebulae” seen and recorded by William Herschel during the summer of 1782. Since my skies are loaded with sky glow, it is not possible to see the ansae (handles) at the ends of the long axis of this beautiful bluish planetary nebula. With the ansae visible this planetary nebula very much resembles a blue version of the planet Saturn with its rings edge on. At high magnification the white dwarf central star is easily detectable with 18” of aperture although the view is much better under dark transparent skies.
Sketching:
NGC 7009 Saturn Nebula (planetary)
Date and Time: 8-25-2009, 4:15 4:50 UT
Scope: 18” f/5 Dobsonian. 24 mm eyepiece 95x
8”x12” white sketching paper, 2H, HB, graphite pencils, light brown color pencil,
blending stump, scanned and inverted
Seeing: 7/10
Transparency: Average 3/5
Faintest stars visible overhead 4.3
Temperature: 20°C (68°F)
Nebula magnitude: 8.0, Central star 11.5
Distance: 2000-4000 ly
Location Constellation: Aquarius
Position: R.A. 21 hrs 4 min
Dec. -11° 22′
Frank McCabe
Gamma Andromedae or Almach, double star
Sketch and Details by Milosz Guzowski
Almach – A colourful couple
Hi,
Today I want to show you a colourful couple of stars in Andromeda.
– Object Name (Gamma Andromedae), Almach
– Object Type (Double Star)
– Location (Poland/Białuty)
– Date (16.08.2009)
– Scope (10″ Newtonian + 10 mm plossl)
– Mediums (Graphite pencil on white paper + GIMP processing
M4 (NGC 6121) a large nearby globular cluster in Scorpius
Sketch and Details by Jorge Arranz
Hello,
Here is my sketch of M4, globular cluster in Scorpius, and second nearest to Earth, just after FSR 1767.
It was done from Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, on 7/18/2009, using a Dob Lightbidge 10″, with a SWAN 15 mm eyepiece, giving 85x and 51’FOV.
Jorge Arranz
M13 (NGC 6205) The Great Globular star cluster in Hercules
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla
Hello!
This is sketch of Messier 13 – the Great Globular Cluster of Hercules from the Tapadla Defile – one of the main meeting place of observers from Wroclaw and parts.
Object: Messier 13
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with LVW 13mm
Date: August 20th 2009.
Place: Tapadla Defile (Tąpadła). Bottom Silesia. Poland
Weather: Excellent. Seeing 4,5/5. Transparency 5/5.
Technique: Graphite pencil.
Tooling: GIMP2.
Aleksander Cieśla
M17 (NGC 6618) the Swan Nebula in Sagittarius
Sketch and Details by Dan Israël
Object Name M17
Object Type Emission nebula
Location Molines-en-Queyras, France
Date 20/08/09
This sketch was made in a small hamlet in the French Alps (elevation 1900m), using a 250mm Dobsonian telescope with a 13mm wide field eyepiece (92 X) and an Oxygen-III filter. The sketch was made on the spot with graphite pencils on white paper.
regards,
Dan
NGC 6979, Pickering’s Triangle
Sketch and Details by Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
Hy!
Finally I sketched and send You the third part of the “Veil Complex”
known as Pickering’s Triangle.
This is a very fleeting and weak nebula for an observer, So I think lot of
details in the sketch are a result of my imagination.
Best regards
Robert
Sketch details:
Object Name : NGC 6979, Pickering’s Triangle.
Object Type: Nebulae/emission/reflection
Location: Poland/ eastern Poland , Molodycz
Date: 20.08.2009 y,
Equipment: Meade Light Bridge 12”, Ultrablock 2″ and SWAN 40mm.
Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
