Hello!
Object type: crater
Location: Nagyvarsány/Hungary
Date: 2011-12-19
Media: white paper and lead pencils (F, 2B, 5B, 8B)
Equipment used: 80/900 Sky-Watcher refractor
MOON – Colongitude: 197,9° – phase: 37,2%
Gassendi is a very nice crater, the walls of ruined, central mountain is small and cracked the bottom of the crater. Typical FFC.
My blog: http://viktorcsehdraws.blogspot.com/
Clear skies! 🙂
Viktor
M 97 Umaj
Instrument: 16 ”
360x
Place: Kreuzleshöhe 1100m, Germany
Time: 14.04.2013
fst: 6m3 SQM 21,60
Hello, I present to you my sketch of that beautiful Open Cluster. I hope you like it…
Location: Belchatow, Poland
Time: 3:30-4:00 UT, 25.07.2012
Equipment: Sky Watcher 200/1000, Antares W70 25mm
Power: 40X (variable field of view)
Media: Watercolor crayon on black paper
Seeing: Antoniadi IV
Hello nighthawks,
so this is the last Saturn for this season.In the next few weeks, he is no longer very high above the southern horizon. Unfortunately, in Germany the weather was this year very changeable. There are seldom good observations possible, but on 06. June 2013, the conditions were very good and I decided to sketch the beautiful ringed planet without a template. The Plant was 0.57 magnitude brightness and the diameter was 42,8″.
After almost an hour I was happy with the result and I hope you like my second Saturn freehand drawing this year. The main difficulties are to bring the ring system faithfully to the paper.
Always clear skies
Uwe
Here are the details:
Object: Planet
Name: Saturn
Date: 06.06.2013
Conditions: quite air, good transparency, no wind, temperature about 15°C
Telescope: 10″ Meade ACF
Eyepiece: Binocular 18mm Genuine Orthos and 24 – 8mm Baader Zoom Eyepiece
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
2012 08 16, 1330 UT
NW Prominence
Erika Rix – Texas
DS Maxscope 60mm h-alpha, LXD75, Baader Planetarium Hyperion 8-24mm Mark III
Temp: 86 F (30 C), winds SE 5 mph, lightly scattered, 37% H
Seeing: Wilson 4.7-4, Transparency: 4/6, 50x, Alt: 72.7, Az: 175.3
Sketch created at the eyepiece with black Strathmore Artagain paper, white Conte’ pencil and crayon, and white color pencil.
NOAA 11543 had very bright plage. The sunspots within it weren’t quite as pronounced as the other day. There was a very large filament going east to west in the SE quadrant of the solar disk. More plage located to the SW and the E-NE quadrants.
The brightest, largest prominence that I spotted was located on the NW limb and resembled two dancers joined by their outreached hands with their other hands stretched out behind them. More prominences were scattered about the limb, but to the SW, a very short, bright set of prominences were apparent.
I have not sketched Saturn this go around until now because of extremely poor weather so far this year. On Wednesday evening the atmosphere cooperated and I had a scope outside cooling down. I did not have access to any Saturn templates because of a computer crash. So I took out my old mechanical drawing equipment and made an ellipse of the approximate eccentricity of Saturn’s rings and sketched from there. It’s a bit crude but reasonably close to the view. Seeing was good and the atmosphere was transparent. I was able to see Mimas but it was just beyond the way I framed the sketch for posting. Enceladus was about 12th magnitude.
Sketching:
Date: 06/20/2013, 01:45 – 02:45 UT
Sky Conditions: Partly cloudy
Transparency: 3/5
Seeing: Pickering 7/10
For sketching I used 10” x 12” Canson black paper, white, gray, charcoal and black pastel pencils, powdered Conte’ crayons, white Pearl eraser, blending stumps.
Equipment: 18” f/4.95 Dobsonian with a 9mm ortho eyepiece for 250 x.
Neodymium filter and single polarizing filter
Frank McCabe
Object Type: Moon Craters
Location: Barcelona – Spain
A fantastic embedded collection of craters in the south pole of the Moon. Best seen in the seventh night of lunation.
For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:
http://www.laorilladelcosmos.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/stofler-y-faraday.html
Date and Time: 2013-06-15, 21h 21m UT
Telescope: SC Celestron Nexstar 5i (127mm)
Eyepiece: Orthoscopic 5mm (250x)
White paper, HB2 and 5B graphite pencil, and scanned and inverted with Photoshop
Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)
Transparency: Clear. Suburban Skies.
Thank you and best regards.
Oscar
Hello sketchers
Here my last observation of Mercury and Venus
Object Name (Mercury and Venus)
Object Type (Planet conjunction)
Location (Val d’Issole)
Date (June 20th 2013)
Media (Watercolour for the landscape and graphite pencil for the planets)
During this very “non cloudy” evening with a perfect transparency, I observed this planet conjunction from my own terrace. I use a 10×50 binocular to find Mercury as early as possible, then with my 102/1000 refractor I begin to sketch this planet that I see with a pale orange light, until masking by the horizon. Some time after, I sketched Venus, with a more blue light. The EP I used was a 40mm to find the planets and then a 10mm SWA to sketch.
What is uncommon here is the apparent diameter of both planets, they looks very similar in size but with very different colours. In fact, Mercury was close to us, nearly between the sun and the earth, and Venus was far further our star.
Michel – http://astro.aquarellia.com
Michel Deconinck
My family went to international trip to Cebu, Philippines.
The Cebu’s latitude is N 10.2˙.
So I prepared 8inch travle dob (Uti 8) and observed deep sky in the resort beach.
The weather of Southest Asia is very changeable in the midnight.
For 3 nights, I drew a only one cluster! It located bottom of Scorpious.
Object : NGC 6231 (Open Cluster)
Location : Korea
Date : May. 19, 2013
Media : Black Paper, White jelly pen
Hello!
I would like to present you my latest sketch made at the astronomical meeting in the Bieszczady Mountains.
The second version is a little brighter for darker monitors
Object: Messier 97 (Owl Nebula)
Equipment: Meade Lightbridge 8” with LVW 13mm and UHC-S filter.
Technique: Pencil on white paper, inverted, some corrections with GIMP (especially stars)
Place and date: May 10, 2013. Natura Park, Stężnica, Bieszczady Mountains
Author: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)
