Category: Paper

Aristarchus Crater

Aristachus
Aristarchus Crater

This 40 km diameter bright crater is always clearlly seen with a small telescope.
The inner surface of this crater looks like as to be painted with some dense bright white material .
Last winter , I observed / sketched this crater using my trusty 8 inches refractor at x340 .

While I was observing, the zet- black shadow of eastern rim more and more covered the flat bottom surface until the small round central peak only remaind,. …. that was impressive .

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8 inches refractor x340

2012. feb. 4th

Crater name; Aristachus

seeing; mediocre, not good

Location; at Backyard home in South korea

Media; white paper, graphite pencils

NGC 7293

NGC 7293
NGC 7293

Aloha!

I submit a favorite observation, NGC 7293 the Helix Nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. My first impression even without a filter was “Wow, that is really big!”. And it is, measuring 16’ in diameter or about half the size of the full Moon. It is also the nearest planetary nebula to our solar system at a distance of ~650 light years.

Though I could see the object without aid of filters, OIII & NPB filters brought out far more detail. Some fainter stars could be seen with averted vision within the nebula as well as a multi-layered mottled shell like appearance. I have gone back to this object many times trying to “see” more with longer observations.

Haleakala Maui, Hawaii
12.5” Portaball 14mm EP 108X
OIII & NPB filters
9/17/12
graphite pencil / white paper, inverted with Photoscape software
Thia (Cindy) Krach

Rupes Recta at Sunrise

Rupes Recta
Rupes Recta

I set up to sketch Rupes Recta on the floor of Mare Nubium. From the eastern edge of Mare Nubium you can see the triplet craters, Thebit (57 km), A and L. Next moving westward is the Imbrian escarpment Rupes Recta , not a true wall in the usual sense but on one side standing more than 300 meters high at some locations and 114 km in length. The scarp face would be visible from the rim of young crater Birt’s (17 km) to the west of “straight wall” if you could get there. Touching the rim of Birt to the east is Birt A.

Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Canson paper (8” x 10”), white and black pastel pencils, assorted erasers, and blending stumps

Telescope: 13.1” f/6 Dobsonian working at 222X (9mm ocular)
Date: 11-22-2012 01:00-02:45 UT Temperature: 12°C (54°F)
Hazy, slightly breezy
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Colongitude 10.1 °
Lunation 8.1 days
Illumination 64.9%
Alt. 45°

Frank McCabe

Waxing Gibbous Moon

Waxing Gibbous Moon
Waxing Gibbous Moon

Object Name Moon
Object Type Planet
Location Valencia (Spain)
Date 27th november 2012
Media: graphite pencil and white paper

Dear reader,

Finally the clouds have gone so I tried to get a nice view of the moon. It was also a photo session so after finishing the previous sketch I took a picture that it was useful to catch many details from the moon. This is my first drawing objetct and it was a pleasure to work with this amazing object day after day.

El cosmos de Tajeiro

I Hope you like.

Jupiter Greets The Hyades

Jupiter and Hyades
Jupiter and Hyades

Hello!
I would like to show you my latest sketch made with binoculars 10×50. On the right side are Hyades, and in the left-top part shines the Jupiter.
I used the graphite pencil on white paper. Then sketch was inverted. There are some little corrections in GIMP.

Best regards!
Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)

Crater Goclenius

Crater Goclenius
Crater Goclenius

The seeing was better than usual on November 18th, so I decided to use a high magnification on my C6, and see what would catch my eye.

Near the edge of Mare Fecunditatis, craters Gutenberg and Goclenius stood out, with two rimae running in from the north west.

I zeroed in on the crater Goclenius itself. The Rimae run right into it. The shadows were quite stark, revealing the broken down crater walls, and the fractures on the floor were very apparent.

A pencil sketch was done at the eyepice, and a photo taken. The final sketch was then completed at leisure a couple of weeks later.

Details:
Crater Goclenius, C6 (150mm SCT, 3 x Barlow)
Adelaide, South Australia, November 18th 2012.
Medium is charcoal on white paper.

-Ivan

Colourful Jupiter

Jupiter - November 24, 2012
Jupiter - November 24, 2012

Objekt Name: Jupiter
Object Type: Planet
Location: Koroška, Austria
Date: 24.11.2012
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Colours added with Gimp2

On this observation evening, seeing was average (Antoniadi: II-III). After a while it was obvious, that 180x will be the highest practical power.
Inside the SEB I could observe the disturbances behind the GRS. They were clearly brighter and in some moments they even showed some structures. The bright bay around the GRS was also a feast for the eyes. The NEB showed its irregular edge. Connected to the NEB, there were a bump and a small Festoon inside the EZ.
When I switched to 150x, the subtle colours became noticable clearer. The planets surface showed its well known cream-colour. SEB an NEB were a little bit on the brown side. The GRS showed a hue of salmon pink. I even managed to see a blue touch at the little bump of the NEB. I´ve never seen Jupiter so colourful!

Messier 46 and 47

Messier 46 and 47
Messier 46 and 47

I recently spent a 3 weeks holiday in Mid Sweden (Bergslagens Kanal area). October/November really isn’t the holiday season over there, but it is if you want to enjoy some dark skies. It ‘s very bright during the night in summer.
I had a few crisp clear nights the first week, so was the temperature at night (freezing -6.5°C to -8°C). The other 2 weeks were either too cloudy or too humid for decent observation.
Until the last night, which showed the milky way 180° from SE to NW. Never saw that before. Of course all the gear was packed already for leaving the next morning, so typical .. So I had to use my old 7×50 that night.
All in all, I was able to make 10 good sketches in 3 nights only, a poor result unfortunately.

—
/Erik

Lunar “Yin-Yang”

Lunar Terminator
Lunar Terminator

Hi!

I have always been fascinated by the shadows on lunar-terminator.

This is a contact of the brightness with the dark side. It’s looks like an ancient symbol “Yin-Yang”. The eternal meeting of day and night. The marvelous spectacle of metaphysical shadows dancing in craters basins.

These seemingly chaotic formations in fact fascinate observer by their complexity and repetition of forms!

Oh! I love sketching the Moon!

With a large mirror (41cm) and eyepiece with good contrast we can admire a lots of details on the lunar surface

My telescope Capella 41 + 14mm ES eyepiece, pencils + paper.

Yours, Robert
Sketch details:
Object Name: The Lunar “Yin-Yang”,
Object Type: Moon
Location: Poland, Oborniki
Date: 20-11-2012
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 409/1800 (Capella 41), 14mm ES eyepiece
Object: – Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)