Quasar 3C 273

Quasar 3C 273
Quasar 3C 273

Hi Asod! This is my sketch of a very unusual object! A quasar, in the constellation of Virgo. It was very difficult to find it (mv=13), but I was able to read my star map. I observed the Quasar with my Dobson 10″ from San Severino Lucano (ITALY), a very dark sky.
I realized the sketch with a black ink pen on white paper, then inverted.
I hope you enjoy it!

Messier 76

Messier 76, a Planetary Nebula in Perseus
Messier 76, a Planetary Nebula in Perseus

Hey ASOD!

This time I send the planetary nebula M. 76.
I could not see outer structures, only the wellknown inner globes.
This is a fine but fainter copy of the more famous M. 27 (Manual)!
I used pencil on white paper and inverted. Info on my sketch.
Loc.: Trondheim, Norway.

Best wishes and clear sky!!

Per-Jonny Bremseth.

The Pleiades

Messier 45, The Pleiades Open Cluster
Messier 45, The Pleiades Open Cluster

ASOD: ” The Pleiades”

Object Name: The Pleiades, Messier 45

Object Type: Open Cluster

Date: 12/3/2013

Location: A Coruña, Galicia. Spain.

Media: pencil, white paper, color invert and enhance with Gimp.

Nikon Astroluxe 10×70

Seein: 3/5 (good)

One of our favourite cluster, M45 is a real handful of gems in the sky.
The sketch was done in two steps. I did the main draw in first night and correct some positions in the second night.

First International Sun-Day

First International Sun-Day on June 22, 2014
First International Sun-Day on June 22, 2014
Certificate of Acheivement for the First International Sun-Day June 22, 2014
Certificate of Acheivement for the First International Sun-Day June 22, 2014

First International Sun-Day
· Object Name (International public event)
· Object Type (Sun)
· Location (Varages – Provence France)
· Date (2014 June 22)
· Media (graphite pencil for the sun, water ink and watercolour for the scenery, white paper, Paint.Net to assemble)

This first International sun-day was a good time to show the sun to the public, today in the north hemisphere the day is much longer than the night. The day before, the local radio broadcast make our promotion. With the local association “AAP” (Association – Astronomie – Provence) of Varages we had good time and very nice public. Despite the fact that the sun was quite calm, we can show a very tiny archipelago of sun-spots on the middle of the disk as well as some spots neat the limb. Anyway, the proms make our day; they are much more attractive for the public today.
To sketch the H-alpha part of the sun (here the portion out of the disk) I used a Coronado 60mm refractor with a focal length of 1000mm ; for the inner portion, the disk in Wight Light, I used my 102mm refractor, same focal length with glass objective filter.

http://aap.eklablog.com/
http://astro.aquarellia.com/

Michel Deconinck

I forget to say that :
In the foreground you can see two parabolic solar oven used to cook sausages and eggs for the public

Comet P 168 Hergenrother

Comet P 168 Hergenrother - October 19, 2012
Comet P 168 Hergenrother – October 19, 2012

Hello friends of the dark side,

here is my second comet sketch. I drawed P 168 Hergenrother at the 19. October 2012 between 22.15 and 23.00 p.m. The brightness of the comet is near 11mag. It shows very nice in the starfield.

I used my 115/805 TMB APO with the Baader Zoom ocular (8 – 24mm) and the 22mm Nagler ocular. I know, that it is very difficult to fix the fine nuances of the comet tail with the pencil, but I don´t wipe at my sketches.

O.k. so I hope, that my result satifies you.

Clear skies, Uwe

On the Horizon Near Mare Orientale

Mountains on the lunar horizon near Mare Orientale - June 15, 2014
Mountains on the lunar horizon near Mare Orientale – June 15, 2014
Mountains on the lunar horizon near Mare Orientale, water color painting- June 20, 2014
Mountains on the lunar horizon near Mare Orientale, water color painting- June 20, 2014

Goddess Selene showed me this beautiful old Lunar horizon landscape on the good seeing night on 15th 6. 2014.

I was very happy to see this view .

I opened covers of optics at soon after sun set , …. always the 35kg 18″ flat in front of the 13″ og cools slowly, the image saturn began to show encke minima when I started observing at 10 o’clark.
I was very tired then to give up observing as this 13″ never showed me a Lunar view that surpass 8″….. until now , I slept for 2-3 hours till 2 o’ clock ….. I woke up and again looked through the bino eyepieces.

The beautiful whole Lunar surface was there in incredible details that far surpass the 8″ even along the entire moon limbs… even in that low transparency night, then every skepticisms about the optical qualities shattered , vanished away.
The power of 13′ OG could penetrated twice times into the lunar horizon, so sketch span reduced from 70- 80 km of 8″ og to 30-40 km of 13″ og.

I was interested in water color painting when I was a high-school student and there is 40 years vacancy till worked again on this a lunar limb water -color picture.

…..Still work-able…, right?

Always clear nights, to all amateurs
K. S. Min

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Object; Two mountains near Mare Orientale West Lunar limb

Observe/ Sketch for 2.5 hours; 15. 6, 2014

Water color painting for 2 hours ; 20. 6, 2014

13″ refractor, x 530, naglar 7s type 1

Lunation ; 16 day [14 day is incorrect]

Altitude of moon at 3 ;00 am; about 40 deg [maybe the amount of photons flow from that night’s moon came into the 13″ was 1/100 in compare with that from the clear cold winter nights’ high alt. moon ]

Location ; Backyard home in South. Korea

White paper [40 x30 cm] with pencils , [70x 40 cm] in color with brushes