Paper – Page 52 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Occultation of Beta Scorpii by the Moon

Object Name: The Moon and Beta Scorpius
Object Type: The Moon and a double star
Location: Haleakala Summit on Maui, HI
Date: August 14, 2013
Media: Pencil on a white sketch notebook page, reworked in GIMP and color inverted.
Because this event occurred over a short period of time, I was not able to make a detailed sketch of the moon. I’ve added details to one crater that lies near the double star which I’m guessing is Moretus. If anyone knows differently, please make a note of it in the comments.
The information about the equipment and the objects are included in the sketch submitted.
I give permission to display this sketch anywhere as long as I’m credited.
Thank you.

Steve McGaughey

Crater Balmer

Hello artists, how are you? i’m in last day of holyday….tomorrow i start with work…..Three days ago i made my last sketch of Moon behind my home, i’m in sleep but i jump from my bad and go to backyard. The Moon was two days after fool phase, i take.at first ,my bino 10×50 and i see the shadow at right border.
I take my refractor Vixen 90/1300 (old perfect instrument) and made this sketch. The zone are near Crater Petavius and Mare Crisium. I see the particular of crater Balmer with Mountain shadow…..incredible vision, very steady and clear in this scope.
I hope like you.
Best regard at all and clear sky.
Ciao, Giorgio.

Site: Pergola, Marche Region, center italy
Date: 23 August 2013 from 11,30 p.m. to 01,20 a.m.
Moon phase: waning (17,2 days of age)
instrument: refractor 90/1300
eyepiece: 6,2mm (12,4 with barlow 2x)
Magnification: 210x
Technics: Graphite pencill (from 4H to 3B) on sketch Fabriano Paper.

NGC 5907

NGC 5907 Draco

16 ” 180-240x fst:6m3 SQM 21,42

Kreuzleshöhe 1100m, Germany

Luminous Butterfly

object Name – M6 “Butterfly cluster” sketch
Location – bohyun Mountain, Yeongcheon-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, S.KOREA
Media – pencil, charcoal , white Paper(croquis book)

XQ 10″ Dob / Explore 14mm 100′(2 inch)= “89x”

supplement image Link – twenty second afterward butterfly shape gif “M6 sketch”
(20 second please….gif butterfly shape….)

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m6 butterfly shape sketch edit supplement gif image Link

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NGC 6781

Hi Asod, sent a recent observation of this magnificent nebula in the constellation of Aquila, has a very important and brightness donut shaped reminiscent lyra M 57, with the help of a filter details are more noticeable, and renamed to this object , the small ring Aquila.

regards.

Object name: NGC 6781
Object type: Planetary Nebula
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 10 August 2013
Hour: 1:20 < 2:00 Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8 Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope 10" F/5 Meade lightbridge. Eye piece Explore scientific 14mm 82° Magnification 90x True field 0,9° Sky conditions: windless sky, good transparency Nelm 5,9 Temperature 12,7°C Relative humidity 30% Borthle scale 3/9 http://dibujodelcielonocturno.blogspot.com.es/

Craters Stofler and Faraday

Craters Stofler and Faraday
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There are some very fine craters to be found in the lunar highlands among the look-alike craters there. Two that I have included in this sketch are craters Stofler (125 km.) and Faraday (70 km.). Many of the craters in the region have large smooth regions on their floors. The remains of the eastern wall of Stofler form a rampart between older Stofler and Faraday and can be seen near Stofler’s center. The Faraday impact moved the east wall like an enormous excavator. On the south rim of Faraday sit two more overlapping craters, Stofler P (33 km.) and Faraday C (30 km.). That makes 4 fairly large overlapping craters in a small lunar region and many, many more small ones beyond resolution.
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, 6”x 11”, white and black Conte’pastel pencils, white pearl eraser and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6mm eyepiece 241x
Date: 08-13-2013 00:10 – 01:50 UT
Temperature: 15°C (60°F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Co longitude: 356.1°
Lunation: 6.9 days
Illumination: 43.3 %
Phase: 97.7°
Frank McCabe

Splendor of the Eagle

Here’s my impression of M16, a large star-forming nebula with inside of it a brilliant cluster of newborn stars in the constellation of Serpens. It was made on the 10th of August at my little observatory in Carù, Italy. Equipment used was my 18″ f/4,45 homemade Dob with 40mm Siebert VP Echelon binoviewer, a couple of Explore Scientific 24mm 82° eyepieces and a Baader OIII filter. Conditions were rather good and I could even make out the main “pillar of creation” as a small dark lane in the nebula’s centre. I captured the image with an ordinary pencil on white paper and afterwards elaborated it on the pc, trying to make the final result as realistic as possible. I sincerely hope you like it!

The Hercules Globular Cluster

Hello! Last night I observed the most beautiful globular cluster of our sky. M13, also known as “Hercules Cluster”, has a a diameter of about 110 ly and is about 23500 ly away”!!! It’ s fantastic to see, is my favourite DSO. I obseverd it with my dobsonian telescope 10” f/5, with two different eyepiece: WA 12mm (104x) and SuperPlossl 9mm (138x), it’ s always wonderful!

Object name: Messier 13, Hercules Cluster
Object type: Globular cluster
Location: Copertino (LE), Italy
Date: 08/08/2013
Media: Grafite pencil on White paper; inverted

Messier 7

Object: Messier 7.
Type: Open star cluster.
Location: Bangalore Karnataka, India.
Date: 18-Aug-2013.
Media: White paper, Black Gel pen, inverted and processed in Photoshop CS2..
Seeing condition and transparency was very bad..
Instrument: Sky 130mm Newtonian, Sky watcher EQ-1, wide angle plossil 20mm.

Hi guys, sky in Bangalore has been very bad since few months due to monsoons. Sky was a bit clear towards south today, so quickly, I recorded this from mid of light and air pollution. So could not see many dimmer stars.

Sunspots – August 15, 2013

Object Name: Sun
Location: Schwanfeld – Germany
Date: August, 15th 2013
Media: graphite pencil on white paper
Optics: Vixen ED102SS (diameter: 102mm / 4 inch, focal length: 660mm / 27 inch)
Mount: Giro II DX (AZ-Mount)
Filter: Baader-Planetarium Astro-Solar ND5 (visual)
Eyepiece: Televue Nagler 12mm Type IV (overview), Speers Waler Zoom @ 6mm (details)

Hello to all,

Today we had a sunny morning, only the sky was crossed with light cirrus clouds. Why shouldn’t I look to the sun? The sun came up with some sunspot groups and an bright area (maybe flares?) on me. I could not help, I took the drawing pad an my pencil and start to draw. Maybe the sunspots in overview are little bigger than they real were, but I think the details outside the circle are located close to the original. Hope you like it too.

With sunny regards

Florian Köhler