Object: Messier 15 (globular cluster, Pegasus)
Date: 12. 30. 2012.
UT.: 16h18m-17h46m
Equipment: 305/1525 Dobsonian telescope
Mag.: 218x
FOV: 12’
S = 8 / 10 T = 4 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya
Location: Sükösd, Hungary
Object Name– Venus, Jupiter
Object Type Conjunction of planets
Location Pesaro, Italy
Date 18th August 2014
I woke up early at 5:00 o’clock to take a look at this marvelous conjunction. It was still night at the time and I was surprised with a mighty view of the rising Orion. I waited on my balcony for until the planets were visible over the roofs in front me. I quickly took my pencil and drew what I saw on the eyepiece of telescope, but the seeing was awful and just two moons were visible. The view of this two small lights dancing together over the roof in the cold morning was much more intriguing, so I tried to sketch the whole landscape. Never tried this kind of astronomy sketch before, probably my first landscape since I was a child.
This is my sketch of the Swan Nebula, NGC6618. It was sketched through a Meade Research Grade 12.5″ F/6, using a Celestron UHC filter and a Nagler 16mm Type 2.. La Verne, CA is located in a Red Zone. Thanks for looking!
Object Name – Messier 57, The Ring Nebula
Object Type – Planetary Nebula
Location – Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland
Date – 06 August 2014
Media – Graphite pencil on white paper (Image inverted)
This is my first sketch of M57. Observations were made using an Orion XT10i and a 17mm Wide Angle (65° FOV) lens.
The seeing conditions were average, however i made the sketch from my back garden under light polluted skies. There was also a half moon present which added to the skyglow.
I used averted vision to notice the subtle features of the slightly elongated nebula. The central star was not seen in my telescope.
Observations were made with and without a DMC Narrow Band Pass Nebula filter. The filter slightly increased the contrast of the nebula while obscuring the background stars.
Overall I am very happy with how it came out.
I would like to show, through this drawing, how the seeing is important to observe and describe very little objects.
Object: NGC 1999
Object type: reflection nebula and globule
Constellation: Ori
Date of observation: 2011 10 01
Length of observation: 60 min
Height of object above horizon: 28.5°
Observing site: Observatoire des Baronnies Provençales (Southern French Alps)
Observing conditions; exceptionally good, mag limit 6.7v, SQM 21.50, FWMH 0.9” !!!
Instrument: Dobson Obsession 25”
Eypiece: Ethos 6mm, without filter, power 520x
Notes: I am astonished: at the eyepiece, I have in front of me a delta winged aircraft, perfectly clean. Extremities of wings are curved, the “head” of the craft easely detailleable. The encreasing of bright nebulosities around the head and at the back of the wings have also been noticed.
The caracteristic blue color of reflection nebulae is obvious.
Much more details can be found at www.deepsky-drawings.com
Cheers
Bertrand
• Object Name: Sirsalis crater area
• Object Type: Lunar crater
• Location:Terrace housing Alcorcón – Spain
• Date: August 8, 2014 22:30h TU – Lunation 13 days, illumination 95%
• Media: Graphite Pencil 3H, 6B, 6B graphite rod torchon 1 and white paper
• Formated with GIMP 2.8
Observation notes:
Drawing Sirsalis crater area
(Position: Longitude: 60.507° West Latitude: 12.492° South Side: Nearside Quadrant: South-West Area: Moon West limb)
Rima Sirsalis (left)
craters:
Sirsalis of 41 km is superimposed on Sirsalis A of 48 km.
To the left and from top to bottom:
Sirsalis H: 26 km.
Sirsalis G: 30 km.
Sirsalis F: 13 Km.
Sirsalis J: 12 Km.
New 10” dob telescope, 220x. City sky. 25º C. Moisture 40 º/º.
Greetings to all visitors of this page. PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 8/10/2013
Object name: M57, The Ring Nebula
Object type: Planetary Nebula
Instrument: 6″ Newtonian reflector, 6 mm eyepiece, UHC filter
Location: Gladbeck, Ruhr area, Germany
Date: July 18, 2014
conditions: 23 °C / 73 °F, clear and calm, fst = 5,2 mag
Media: graphite pencil (4B) on white paper, graphite powder and cotton swab, inverted and edited with GIMP 2.8
Clear skies,
Michael
www.sternsucher.com
Object name: STF 1965
Object type: Double Star
Location: Marina di Cerveteri (IT) – 12 02 44.3E, 41 58 52.9N
Date: 2014-08-05
Media: graphite pencil & pastel
Equipment: 95mm VMC
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Gianluca Paone
Astronomia Sotto il Lampione – Forum
Hello,
After some weeks during the “White nights” without a look in the sky, I started observation at the 7th August with my new 130/1200 Aspherical Doublet Apochromat (it was planned by Ralf Mündlein and me in the last two years) the planet. The air was quite well and the conditions were warm and dry.
A nice crater with some little impacts and mountains at the bottom took my attention. So I made a drawing of this view. I hope you like the “Mersenius”.with it´s nice landscape.
CS Uwe
Object: Moon
Object Name: Crater Mersenius
Telescope: 130/1200 Aspherical Doublet Apochromat
Eyepiece: 7mm Nagler / Maxbright Binocular
Magnification: about 170x
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany
Object Name: (Dumbbel Nebula M27 / NGC 6853)
Object Type: (Nebula)
Location: (Bercedo (Burgos) – Spain)
Date: (2012-09-15 / 23h 15m UT)
Media: White paper, 4B, 2B y HB graphite pencil, scanned and inverted with Photoshop
Telescope: Celestron OMNI 127 XLT (Smith-Cassegrain 5”)
Eyepiece: Baader Hyperion 13mm
Transparency: Clear, Rural Skies.
Location Constellation: Vulpecula
assessments: Dumbbel nebula appears a manner reminiscent even hourglass, but as if it had moved from side to side and left as a halo (something like a horizontal X but faded)
For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:
http://juannava64.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/observacion-m27-nebulosa-dumbbel/
Thank you and best regards.
