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The Talkin Horse

Aloha!

The evening of December 4th (morning of the 5th) was a beautiful night at one of my favorite spots 8 miles from my home on the road to Haleakala National Park. Very clear & very dark. I am finishing up my Planetary Nebula project with Astronomical League and at midnight decided to take a break & try for the Horsehead Nebula again while I was totally dark adapted. Last year I was elated to locate it from my driveway but didn’t sketch it at the time. This year I hoped from a darker location it would be even better, but I decided to just look and not get my hopes up.

After enjoying views of the Flame Nebula I placed Alnitak out of my field of view to the north. Using my 27mm & Narrow Pass Band filter I then placed NGC 2023 to the north inside my view and looked for the 2 – 10th & 13th magnitude guide stars to follow into the Horsehead.
I could see a dim dark patch with averted vision, hood over my head and an eyepatch on the opposite eye. After a short time I could make out the thumbprint of the head with some brightness around the rim and with longer observation a notch appeared to the NW. Some tiny stars also present themselves around the head as well as a linear brightness running N/S through IC 434. I then changed to a 20mm with h-beta filter and more light and dark details of IC 434 appeared, though overall it appeared darker. I got to work sketching & writing up details.

As I was finishing my sketch I heard a “whinnying” sound nearby. I froze because it sounded close and I was all alone. After a moment I realized its an app my daughter has on my iPad that makes horse sounds periodically. It just happened to do so while I was observing the “Horse”! I giggled and ended the night there. What could top that!

B33, IC 434, NGC 2023
Dark Nebula, Emission Nebula, Reflection Nebula
Haleakala Highway 6,000 ft el, Maui, Hawaii
12/5/13 12:00pm, 10:00 UTC
12.5” Portaball, h-Beta & NPB filters, 20mm 76x
Charcoal pencil, charcoal with brush technique, white paper
Inverted with Photoscape software

Cindy (Thia) Krach
Haleakala Amateur Astronomers

M42 from Mar del Plata

Object Name: Orion Nebula – M42 – NGC 1976
Object Type: Nebula
Location: Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 29/11/2013 – 21:30
Media: Digital Tools (Photoshop CS6)

This is my drawing of the Orion Nebula. In Mar del Plata, the sky have light pollution in some places, but I could see something.

I have a reflector telescope Sky-Watcher 114/900 (4,5″) EQ2 with an eyepiece Super 10 mm. I had a good seeing with a good transparency.

Thanks!

The Cat’s Paw

NGC 6334 (Cat's Paw Nebula) — NGC 6334 (Cat’s Paw Nebula)

Bonjour

pour l’ASOD, je te propose la nébuleuse de “la patte de chat” NGC6334 observée en août 2013 au Chili, désert de l’Atacama au pied du VLT, avec le T400 de voyage en carbone (15kg), ethos 8 et 13mm.
Quasi inexistante sans artifice, elle se révèle sans pareil avec un H-béta, d’où cette idée d’une colorisation L, Rouge (H-béta), Vert (OIII).
Dessin en négatif couleur au crayon sur papier blanc.

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je profite de cet envoi pour t’informer de la parrution début décembre de notre ouvrage collectif :
“ASTRODESSIN, Observation & Dessin en astronomie”
fruit d’un remarquable travail d’équipe qui s’est étallé sur plus de 3 ans.

je te propose de découvrir et (si tu le souhaite) de faire figurer sur ton site ASOD le lien vers le site du livre :
http://www.astrodessin.com/

bien amicalement

Serge

PS : désolé pour mon manque en anglais !

[ French to English translation by Google Translate]

Hello

For ASOD, I offer the “Cat Paw” Nebula observed in August 2013 in Chile, the Atacama Desert at the foot of the VLT, with the T400 travel carbon (15kg) NGC6334, 8 and 13mm ethos.
Almost nonexistent without artifice, she reveals unmatched with an H-beta, hence the idea of a coloring L, Red (H-beta), Green (OIII).
Drawing negative color pencil on white paper.

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result of an outstanding team that ETALLE over 3 years work.

I suggest you to discover and (if you wish) to include on your website ASOD the link to the book site:
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Best wishes,

Serge

PS: sorry for my lack in English!

Orion Nebula in Buenos Aires City

Object Name M42 Orion Nebula
Object Type Nebula
Location Lomas de Zamora – Buenos Aires- Argentina
Date 22/11/2013 23:15 hs
Media graphite pencil, white paper, cotton, digital tools: Gimp (for tweaks)

It is my draw about Orion Nebula. Where im living the sky is difficult to see some objects because it have light pollution and others 🙂
In my Draw you can see the Orion nebula (m42) with the sky that I have.
Equipment: Telescope Hokenn 130 x 900 eye Super Plossl 25 mm
Thats´s all, thanks!

The Eastern Veil

Here is one sketch from my Cirrus Observation/Drawing Project!!
NGC 6992/5
16″ 136-180x with OIII und UHC
Fst: 6m5; Adelegg 1100m; Germany
Sketch with Graphit Pencill and white Paper!
I have drawing the complete object in 4 individual drawings and then i put it together in one final drawing.

Heire the Link to the other Drawings:
The Cirrus Complex:
http://www.astromerk.de/logbuch/2013/187-der-cirrusnebelkomplex.html

Lg von Hajü

NGC 6992, 6995, IC 1340 - Original Negative Sketch — NGC 6992, 6995, IC 1340 – Original Negative Sketch

California Nebula

Hi! Asod, few days ago I saw the nebula California, was very curious to know if I could capture something visual light as they claim is faint. With my little scope locate ξ (xi) menkib, but looking even more side vision was getting nowhere, I knew I needed to filter, but had to try. By putting the filter magically appears, still not something brilliant, but do not strain your eyes because it is obvious that this is no, there is a dark area that crosses na nebula, but with side vision greatly improves contrast. The truth that I could not resist doing a sketch but as always with a very dim light, if you can not have problems adjusting to the darkness.
You only need a dark sky, wide field and nebular filter.

Regards.

Object name: NGC 1499 California
Object type: Emission nebula
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 1 November 2013
Hour: 00:00 < 00:40
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Refractor Tele Vue 101 F / 5,4 Genesis SDF Eye piece ES 30mm
Magnification 18x True field 4,5°

Sky conditions: Stable sky, clouds on the horizon. Nelm 6,2 Temperature -0,6°C Relative humidity 67%
Borthle scale 3/9

http://dibujodelcielonocturno.blogspot.com.es/

Orion’s belt stars

Hello ASOD, here join my last watercolor

Object Name (Orion’s belt stars and M42)
Object Type (Constellation and nebulae)
Location (Porquerolles on board of Aquarellia)
Date (02-10-2013)
Media (watercolor on white paper, paint.net for inverting the sky)

In the night of October the first, our old two masts Aquarellia was anchoring close to the harbour of Porquerolles, one of the three “Provencal golden islands”.
At one o’clock in the night I wake me up,… maybe ‘cause of some wave noise? I was surprised by seeing the Orion’s belt stars and M42 rising close to the ‘Sainte Agathe’ fort. With my 7×50 binoculars I sketch this original encounter, the mythic Orion warrior at the rear of a real castle.
The French coast, here in my nord, is full of light pollution but to my surprise, the castle illumination was the only light in the sight. The island is not so close to the polluted coast, so the Orion’s constellation was pure in the dark while rising.
This watercolour was made on board with local salt water (;

I hope you enjoy

Michel Deconinck

http://astro.aquarellia.com/

The Whispy Veil

This is a sketch of NGC 6960, part of the Veil Nebula. Originally sketched on white paper, reversed and processed in Gimp 2. This is my second time doing this method, and I am pleased with the results.

Scope: Criterion RV-6
Ocular: GSO 32mm Plossl + Celestron.
UHC
Location: Prescott, AZ

Thanks for looking!

The Crab

Name: M1 “The Crab”

Type: Supernova remnant, diffuse nebula

Location: Gardner, CO; 37º50’N 105º11’W

Date: September 7, 2013 0300 MDT

Media: Conté crayon, pencil and ink on black Canson paper

Equipment: 18” Newtonian Reflector on a Dobsonian mount

Observer: Knuklhead Astronomer

Orion Nebula from the Black Forest

Hello,

This is my sketch of the orion nebula, drawn on September, 5th 2013, 4:30h at Kaltenbronn Hohloh, black forest, germany, at 998m with my 18″ Dobson Telescope at 135x using an UHC filter.
Height: 18 degrees over Horizon

Drawn with pencil on white paper, scanned, inverted, and processed to remove “dust-stars” from scanning, darkened, and used the smudge tool to recreate the filaments in the nebula.

Kind regards,

Arndt Schädler