Category: Paper

Solar Fireworks

Solar

Solar prominences on June 11th, 2009.
Sketch and Details by Jeff Young

I observed this interesting solar prominence on the 11th of June. While most of the action was quite dim (particularly the two outer arches), there was one bright section elevated some distance off the limb which looked for all the world like fireworks going off.

White Derwent Graphitint pencil on black Strathmore Artagain paper.

Sketched from County Louth, Ireland.

As viewed through 70mm Solarscope h-alpha filter, Tele Vue Pronto, Astro-Physics Barlow, Baader MkV binoviewer and 19mm Panoptics.

Cheers,

— Jeff.

Broken Cigar

M82

M82 (NGC 3034), The Cigar Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Per-Jonny Bremseth

Hey guys!

I send you “M.82, a broken cigar”.
The dark band was easy to see in my telescope and after a time
I could observe dark and lighter structures in this galaxy.
This galaxy is really a good target for amateurastronomers!

The separation between M.81 and M.82 is also a good match!!
The seeng and the transparency was very fine when the
drawing was made, and clean sky!

I use water coloured crayons on black paper only!

The observation of M.82 was from outside Trondheim, Norway.
See more info on my drawing!!

Best wishes from Per-Jonny Bremseth

Spiraling into the Whirlpool

M51

M51 (NGC 5194 and 5195), The Whirlpool Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Janusz Krysiak

Object Name:M 51
Object Type:Galaxy
Location:Pyrnik(Poland)
Date:18.04.2009

medium: pencil, white paper
equipment: Newton 300/1500
magnification: 68x

Hi,
Under a dark sky you may see the spiral galaxy structure. I made this
sketch on 18.04.2009 in Pyrnik, Poland.

Janusz Krysiak

Sunrise on the Moon: Gates of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus

Gates of Imbrium and Ptolemaeus

Gates of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus
Sketch and Details by Leonor Ana Hernández

Object name: oriental region of Mare Imbrium and Ptolemaeus crater
Object Type: Lunar Crater and Maria

The last sunday 31th we could point the telescope to the moon in a beautiful place called “Las Inviernas” Guadalajara, Spain. The moon was just on the seventh day and stood high on the beautiful background of blue sky. I looked through the telescope and I was fascinated by the beauty of the image it shows: “it was dawning at the gates of the east of Mare Imbrium”…

Leonor Ana

Raining Suculae

Hyades

Hyades Open Cluster, Melotte-25
Sketch and Details by Math Heijen

On december 27th 2008 I observed the Hyades with my 12×60 Celestron binoculars, mounted on the SkyWindow. The field of view (FOV) that these binoculars provide is about 5 degrees (300′) and the Hyades are just a little to wide, to fit into FOV. But although I didn’t see the whole cluster in one FOV, the first impression of this cluster was simply stunning. The brilliant deep orange Aldebaran, which actually isn’t a member of the Hyades but a foreground star, dominates the field of view, together with three bright yellow companions. These are three of the four yellow giants of the Hyades: Delta, Gamma, and Theta-1. The fourth is Epsilon (which again didn’t fit in the same FOV). There were many different chains of stars and small asterisms (triangles and other shapes) visible. The northern and southern half’s of the cluster seemed to be more or less divided by a dark empty zone, with almost no stars.

Beside Aldebaran and the three yellow stars, there were two other stars that drew my attention. First of all the brilliant white Theta-2 Tauri, with magnitude 3.3 the brightest star, the Lucida of the Hyades. It makes a beautiful double with the Theta-1, one of the yellow giants. To the south of this nice couple I detected the other prominent star, the reddish M-type variable V1146 (or 84 Tauri). In total I counted about between 75 and 85 stars, but I’m sure with my 300mm Dobson I could double or triple that number easily. According to Archinal and Hynes (Star Clusters, Willmann and Bell) the Hyades contain about 380 stars. This makes it a rich cluster. I could not detect any nebulosity of unresolved stars or of any other kind.

This sketch was made with led-pencil on white paper and later processed in Photoshop. The technique used I learned from Jeremy Perez’s website. If you want to learn more about this object or see a few more sketches of open clusters and double stars, please feel free to visit my website at http://www.starobserver.eu

Clear Skies!

Math Heijen

Netherlands

Revealing the Veil

The Veil Nebula

The Veil Nebula (NGC 6960)
Sketch and Details by Dan Israël

Hello,

I made this sketch in a small hamlet in Aubrac, south of France, altitude 1100m, with average transparency and no moon. I used a 80mm refractor at 30x magnification
and an OIII filter. The sketch was made on the spot with graphite pencil on white Canson paper. Some minor improvements were made later in the daylight (shading, shape of stars).

Object Name NGC 6960 (Veil Nebula)
Object Type supernova remnant
Location Aubrac, France
Date August 2007

The Veil Nebula processed

Computer processed Veil Nebula (NGC 6960)
Computer Sketch by Dan Israël

PS: this version with software processing is a little bit more realistic (but less authentic).

regards,

Dan

Star Death in a Nearby Galaxy

M81 and SN 1993 J

Galaxy M81 and SN 1993 J

Sketch and Details by Per-Jonny Bremseth

Hey!

I want to send you “M.81 and SN 1993 J”.
I was happy to see this “bright” supernova in a nearby galaxy.
The SN was at 10.5 mag. when I made this drawing 1. apr. 1993.
19.05-20.25 U.T..
I used my 20.3 cm. SCT. f/10. Magn.: 111x.
The FOV is 23 arcmin. , the sky was clean with top seeing and
with the objects very high (almost overhead)!.
I used waterbased crayons on black paper only.
Location: 6 km. north of Trondheim city in Norway.

Best wishes from “The grand prix winner” and

Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Reflections from the High Frontier

ISS and Shuttle

ISS and Progress M-02M
Sketch and Details by Janusz Krysiak

Object Name:ISS&Progress M-02M
Object Type:Satellites
Location:Koluszki(Poland)
Date:12.05.2009,21.12(9.12 p.m.)

medium: pencil, white paper
equipment: Newton 300/1500
magnification: 68x

Hi,
These are International Space Station and Progress M-02M about 11
minutes before docking.Progress M-02M was about 150 meters from
International Space Station.It was a wonderful view.

Janusz Krysiak