Object Name: M 92, NGC 6341
Type: Globular Cluster
Constellation: Hercules.
Observing Location: Pioz. Guadalajara. SPAIN.
Date: June 29, 2011
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Sketch processed with GIMP 2.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt5
Eyepiece: 13 mm Hyperion (155X). FOV: 0’44º
MALE: 5,06 Temp.: 13ºC
More information about the sketch and M 92 in:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/
Object Name: M53,
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Fredericksburg, Texas, USA
Date: 06/02/11
Time: 01:30 CDT
Conditions: Clear; Seeing 4/5; Transparency 3/5
Equipment: 280mm SCT, 22mm EP
Medium: Graphite pencil and Blending Stump on white paper. Scanned and color inverted.
This tightly bound spherical collection of over 100,000 rather old stars is roughly 220 light years in diameter, its found in the constellation Coma Berenices. The Globular Cluster was nicely resolved using this scope from a pretty dark site that is some 10 miles out of town.
John Eaccarino
Object Name: M 92 (NGC 6341)
Object Type: Globular cluster
Location: Bátorliget Hungary
Date: 21/06/2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, digital tools
Hi all,
We’ve had some poor conditions in Eastern Australia for most of this year. I still haven’t had a single productive dark sky night yet! Last night it did clear, but for home, and on a Sunday evening! J LOL!
NGC 6397 is a real treasure of the Southern Sky. This globular cluster is just visible to the naked eye from a dark site. It has many mottled concentrations of stars within its confines, even some extending way beyond its core. Some of these, however, may just be incidental line of site features of other open clusters within our Milky Way as 6397 lies quite close to the centre of the Milky Way in the constellation Ara.
6397 also shares a feature with its more famous brother M4 of a “belt” of stars that cuts through its middle. The component stars of this belt in 6397 are much fainter though, making for a ghostly feature. It is a truly beautiful cluster, and a joy to sketch.
One thing I am not a fan of in my sketches is the blaster “Circle of Confine”, that all to dominant circle that describes the field of view. I rarely use it, but I do have to admit that it has a place. Here I’ve gone for a variation/compromise, laying down a very, very faint arc, rather than a full circle. I really want the sketch to be the feature, not a circle.
Object: NGC 6397
Scope: 17.5” dob, push-pull
Gear: 15mm GSO Superview, 133X
Date: June 5, 2011
Location: Sydney, Australia
Media: White soft pastel, white & black charcoal & white ink on A4 size black paper.
Cheers,
Alex M.
Hello,
I’d like to share my sketch with you.
Object Name: Messier 62
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Poltava, Ukraine (49.52N, 34.57E)
Date: 2011 Jun 04/05
Media: graphite pencil on white paper, photographed and inverted colours, some post-processing in ACDSee
Comments:
viewed with 20×90 binoculars;
Bortle class 5, no significant light pollution in southern direction;
clear skies, very good transparency, however some haze above the horizon might be existed, ZNELM near 6.1 mag;
the object is not so easy for my latitude, rising no higher than 10 degrees
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Sincerely,
Roman Kostenko
Society of amateur astronomers in Poltava, Ukraine
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mailto:poltava-astro@yandex.ua
website http://astronomy.pl.ua
Hallo!
This is my sketch of Messier 92 – globular cluster in Hercules. It > is undervalued younger sister of great M13 😉
But very intersting.
Object: Messier 92
Date: May 27, 2011.
Place: Banica, Poland
Equipment: SCT 5″ with SWAN 20mm
Magnification: 62,5x
Media: Graphite pencil, inverted, tooling with PS
Author: Aleksaner Cieśla (Wimmer)
Greetings!
This is my sketch of Messier 80 – globular cluster in Scorpion. In my 5″ scope cluster is small and dense.
Cluster has interesting bright core.
Object: Messier 80
Date: May 26, 2011.
Place: Banica, Poland
Equipment: SCT 5″ with SWAN 20mm
Magnification: 62,5x
Media: Graphite pencil, inverted, tooling with PS
Author: Aleksaner Cieśla (Wimmer)
Object Name : Messier 13
Object Type : Globular Cluster
Location : Petfurdo, Hungary 47°10’N, 18°07’E
Date : 06. May 2011
Media : black pencil on white paper, digitally enhanced with GIMP2.6
Another wonder on the northern sky!
Best regards,
Laszlo Nemeth
nlacus66@gmail.com
Object Name (M3/GLOBULAR CLUSTER/Canes Venatici)
Object Type (GLOBULAR Cluster)
Location (Ruvo di Puglia -Italy)
Date (09-03-2011)
Media (FINGER PAINTING, IPAD, SKETCHBOOK, )
SCARONGELLA VINCENZO
NGC 2808
Globular Cluster
Carina
30/01/11
Ilford NSW Australia
56cm f5 Dobsonian telescope
Field: 17′
Magnification: 354x
Sky quality meter reading: 21:62
Black Canford paper
White pen
White pastel pencil
White pastel chalk
White oil pencil
Paint brush
This sublime globular cluster proved to be a difficult object to sketch.
I almost threw in the towel on this one, as it was so dense with innumerable stars that it was just not turning out as planned.
Then I thought so what if a few stars are miss-plotted, a sketch of a deep sky object is never 100% perfect otherwise you may just as well copy it off an image.
3½ hours at the eyepiece later and I was satisfied enough to call it a day on this one.
NGC 2808 was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826.
It is one of the Milky Way’s most massive clusters and is estimated to be around 12.5 billion years old.
Scott Mellish
