Paper – Page 31 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Messier 101

Object: Messier 101 (galaxy, Ursa Maior)
Date: 13. 05. 2013.
UT.: 21h07m-22h26m
Equipment: 305/1525 Dobsonian reflector
Mag.: 122x
FOV: 25’
S = 6 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya
Location: Sükösd, Hungary

My Favorite Open Cluster

Object Name: NGC 6231
Object Type: Open Cluster
Location: Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
Date: 04/17/2014 01:57AM
Seeing (1-5): 1
Equipment: Astromaster 130/650
Media: Letter Sheet and a pen.. White paper, then invert modified in photoshop.
Enjoy 🙂

The Leo Triplet

Object Name Leo triplet
Object Type (group of galaxies)
Location (Xyliatos dam ,Nicosia, Cyprus)
Date (23.5.2014)
Media (graphite pencil)
Phedias Hadjicharalambous

“Phases of the Moon”

Moon; full moon facing, two views of dark side.
Sketch was made in my studio.
2009; published on album cover for jazz band Four, 2009
Graphite on archival paper.

Thank you.

Erika McGinnis

visit me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/erika.mcginnis.1

Tycho

Object Type: Moon

Location: Tarragona – Spain

A childhood memory: Summer, 1975, Tycho observed with an old binoculars 8×30 of my father. I never would have imagined be viewed as night May 9, 2014.

For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:

http://www.laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2014/05/tycho.html

Date and Time: 2014-05-09, 21h 49m UT

Telescope: SC Celestron 235mm (9.25″); CGEM mount.

Eyepiece: 7.5mm (313x)

White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, and scanned with Photoshop

Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)

Transparency: Clear. Rural skies.

Thank you and best regards.

Oscar

Mars at Opposition 2014

Mars at 2014 Opposition - Chart is comprised of sketches from 19 separate observations — Mars at 2014 Opposition – Chart is comprised of sketches from 19 separate observations

Hello,
I made 19 drawings during the opposition of Mars in 2014, observed T400 x450 750. Prior work finalized in color, I kept on files other than the “gross eye” picture. This allows me to offer two world maps: one color, the other from these crude drawings.
The method:
– Flattening drawings with the “MAP” function IRIS software;
– Creation of a mosaic with a logicile retourche image of the best areas of each drawing.

Bonjour,
J’ai réalisé 19 dessins lors l’opposition martienne de 2014, observé au T400 x450 à 750. Avant le travail de finalisation en couleur, j’ai conservé sur des fichiers à part l’image “brute d’oculaire” . Cela me permet de vous proposer 2 planisphères : l’un en couleur, l’autre à partir de ces dessins bruts.
La méthode :
– mise à plat des dessins avec la fonction “MAP” du logiciel IRIS;
– réalisation d’une mosaique avec un logicile de retourche d’image des meilleurs zones de chaque dessin.

Serge

Hubble’s Variable Nebula

Hey ASOD!

I send this time a most interesting nebula for amateur-astronomers,
the light- variable Hubbles nebula! Info on my sketch.
The observation was made from Trondheim, Norway.
I used color-crayons on black paper.

Have a good time and dark sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
N.B. : In Norway it is summer, and the sky is light, so nothing to see of stars!

Mars

Please find attached 2 of my recent Mars observations from this week rendered with Watercolour paints.

I used my 153mm Triplet F9 refractor, binoviewer and neodymium filter, 15mm Tele vue panoptic eyepieces yielding 215x.

I hope that they are of interest. Seeing was difficult on both occasions, but I have enjoyed seeing the bright clouds which the refractor has shown ably.

Kind regards, Dale

Do you want to know more about my interest in astronomy? If so take a look at my Website: http://www.chippingdaleobservatory.com/

Keep up to date with observations from Chippingdale Observatory by reading the Blog http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/

PanSTARRS C/2012 K1 and STF1758

Object Name (PanSTARRS C/2012 K1 and STF1758)
Object Type (Comet and Double Star)
Location (OAB – Observatoire Astronomique de Bauduen)
Date (May 1st, 2014)
Media (graphite pencil, watercolor, white 300gr paper)

Ahhh, this night I really enjoyed myself! Imagine a unlikely place of beauty, the St. Croix lake, with the emerald waters of the “gorges du Verdon” and just above a sky of dream.
Between the two: the Olivier Planchon Observatory located near the nice small village of Bauduen. In the observatory a heavy reflector holding a main mirror of 24″ (620mm) f/d 3.3, a series of brand new Ethos eyepieces and voila.
My pencils show the target of the moment: another comet PanSTARRS, still quite small, but just near the comet a very pretty double star.
My friend “Apilaure” a specialist of double stars, talks about this double:
– It is also called STF1758, a Struve of 1830. The separation was 3.4” in 2010. It is more than likely a physical double because Hipparcos gives the same parallax for A and B, so a distance of 279 light year. The couple turns slowly, 15° in almost 2 centuries.

This is undoubtedly the superb material and this nice double, that I was deprived of the sight of the ion tail, I will return in this observatory, that’s more than sure!

I wish all the best to the ASOD community !

http://astro.aquarellia.com

Michel Deconinck