Object Name M97 and M108
Object Type Galaxy and Planetary Nebula
Location Banyoles (Girona), Catalonia
Date 2 – 6 – 13
Media Graphite and digital inverted colours
My equipment is a Dobson 10″ with a 25mm eyepiece. The seeing and transparency is 7/10.
Sorry for my english, this is my first sketch with my new dobson. When sketching that you see, you see more details!! It’s awesome!
The name of the sketch, “The Tango” is from… this objects are very spectecular pair on the sky, and give me a “Tango” idea.
M 51 in interaction with its companion (NGC 5195) is one of the most beautiful images that gives us the sky for amateur astronomers. In a moderately good sky and with a half-open tube appreciate how the disks of these galaxies are playing.
Two spiral galaxies are located in the northern constellation of Canes Venatice, about 3 ° away from the star Alkaid (eta UMa). Its location is easy as can be distinguished in the search box 9x as a tiny gray haze. With letters from mag. 6.5 takes me a couple minutes to find them.
Also called the Whirlpool Galaxy, M 51 is a very bright object with a bright nucleus, where it descends gradually to the outside light to get lost in a blur round irregular contour. The brightness of the disk is irregular with signs of spiral arms.
It’s pretty big, about 8 ‘, in relation to the eyepiece of actual field 1, and its shape is round, somewhat flattened perhaps because we see her face.
Attached to the contour Visibly M 51 NGC 5195 is another spiral galaxy about 2 ‘in size, round and rather less luminous than its companion.
Another feature that is seen in M 51 is a little star superimposed in the middle of your disk.
Scattered throughout the field there are several bright stars and about 15 ‘of the galaxy, the more brightness of all.
The 80x I get the best view and choose to do the part. Also alternate direct vision and diverted.
Object name: NGC 3372, NGC3293 and NGC 3324
Object type: Emission nebula, open clusters
Location: Bogotá, Colombia.
Date: March-2013
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Scanned, inverted and processed with photoshop.
Equipment: Celestron skymaster 15X70 Binoculars
Hello all,
I don`t really remember which day of March I started doing this sketch, but the day I started it, the moon was high in the sky so I postponed the sketch to catch the most number of stars possible in this vaste region of the sky. However, I had to postpone the sketch for forever due to the cloudy weather and finally I decided to proceed with the information I had.
I started this sketch with no information about the deep sky objects I was watching. I saw a column very rich with stars, most of them unresolved with the binoculars and forming a vaste region denser and whiter than the LP background sky. I also noticed two groups of stars close to the column (NGC 3372): NGC3293 and NGC 3324. The best out of the three was without doubt NGC3293: just 7 stars could be resolved well, but the whole cluster seemed to shimmer and glow.
This region seems to be a hard one to sketch, but I would like try to sketch it again from a less light polluted site.
This is my drawing of the sun in white light at May 19, 2013.
Object name: Sun
Object type: Star
Location: Koudekerke, Netherlands
Date: May 19, 2013
Media: Graphite pencils and processed with GIMP
Time: Around 14:00 UT
Telescope: Sky-watcher refractor (102/500mm)
First I made a fussy grey background for the sun and drew a circle. Thereafter I drawed the sunspots and the rest of the details inside the disk. I scanned the picture and processed it with GIMP for a smooth contrast and brightness.
Location: Lille, France
Date: 2013, may, 18th
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, Lightroom 4 for inversion/colorisation РCoronado PST 40 + Pl̦ssl 12,5mm
When I watched M64 for the first time with my 5″ SC, I thought I was whatching an awesome galaxy. But on the night of May 11, I could see how important telescope aperture and dark skies really are. The image with my 9,25″ SC was very impressive. I attach the sketches in order to compare the two nights. Really, both have their own charm.
For more details of my observation you can visit my blog:
