Category: Star Clusters

Hunting for M92

Messier 92
Messier 92

Object Name: Messier 92
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Poland/Starogard Gdański
Date: 24.07.2012
Media: graphite pencil/digital tools (GIMP)
Weather Conditions: Clear sky, light pollution from street lanterns
Time:1:30 AM
Equipment: SW 150/750 ,Baader Hyperion 13mm.

Hi everyone!
This is my next DS sketch. This time I drew M92 globular cluster. I
used Baader Hyperion 13mm Eyepiece. In my opinion this is quite good
Eyepiece for this sort of things. As my media I used graphite pencil
and white sheet of paper. I did small corretions in GIMP too. M92 is
one of my favourite deep sky obejcts. It’s small globule but for me
its admirable. So, I spent about 2h doing this sketch. Mainly because
its hard to locate this quantity of stars properly.The weather was
good enough to made this capture, I wish you have clear sky too.
However the seeing was not excellent again but its not uncommon in a
place where I live. Additionally light pollution from streets lanterns
irritate me all the time. However astronomy is too fantastic hobby to
stop doing sketches only because of lanterns.
I hope you enjoy my sketch.

Greetings from Poland

Robert Weiss

Little Lens, Low Lagoon

Messier 8
Messier 8

Object Name: Messier 8, Lagoon Nebula
Object Type: Emission nebula
Location: Wilp, The Netherlands
Date: July 21, 2012
Media: Black pen and graphite pencil on white paper

After literally weeks of rainfall and clouds, last night the sky finally cleared. I took my little 80mm f/6,25 refractor out to a fairly dark site to observe some low Milky Way objects. In the Netherlands Messier 8 rises only 14 degrees above the southern horizon, but because of the very transparant sky much more detail than I expected was visible. Using an Orion Ultrablock filter the dark lane was pretty prominent, and the bright patch on the western side of the nebula appeared to glow. It was a wonderful sight at 38x (13mm Vixen LVW), even at its low altitude.
The sketch was made with a black pen (for the stars) and a 2H graphite pencil (for the nebulosity) on a piece of white paper. Inverted and orientation-flip using Photoshop.

Kind regards and clear skies!

Roel Weijenberg,
Deventer, The Netherlands
www.roelblog.nl

NGC 6520 and Barnard 86

NGC 6520 and Barnard 86
NGC 6520 and Barnard 86

The observation has been made through a 20” dobson Obsession, at Tivoli lodge, Kalahari desert, altitude 1535m, Namibia, on june 2012.
Eyepieces used are Ethos 21mm and 13mm without filters; target was at 45° height.
Drawing made entirely with Paintshop pro, based upon a sketch at the eyepiece.
More details at www.deepsky-drawings.cm

Regards
Bertrand

The Flight of the Butterfly

Messier 6
Messier 6

Hello Day July 14th I made a sketch of m6 and I liked it very much.
Please feel free to spread this beautiful object of the Southern Hemisphere

Object name: M6/ NGC6405 – Butterfly cluster
Object type: open cluster in Scorpius
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Media: Graphite pencil

This sketch was done by looking through a telescope M6 90mm Skywatcher Maksutov. I used a 40mm eyepiece superploss, totaling 31.25 x magnification and a diagonal of 1.25 inches dieletric WO.
The paper used was canson 200g/m2 in the cream and the eye region was reversed using the GIMP software.
I used pencils from HB to 8B Steadtler Lumograph Mars.
Clear, 9 ° C, wind o.3km / h harmed by seeing a fine mist that was intensifying.
M6, in dark places, it is easily seen with the naked eye like a smudge in the sky, next to M7. With a 10×50 binoculars, both m6 and m7 are visible.

Other drawings are on my blog: http://rabiscandoouniverso.blogspot.com.br/

cordial greetings

Guilherme de Andrade

Occultation of Jupiter by the Moon

Jupiter Occultation and Conjunction
Jupiter Occultation and Conjunction

Hi, here attached my last souvenir

Object Name (Jupiter, Moon, Venus and Hyades)
Object Type (occultation)
Location (Néoules Var France)
Date (2012 July 15th)
Media (graphite pencil for the moon, and watercolor for the dolmen sketch)

So early! I observed with a friend of mine from 3h to 5h AM local time.

Close to Néoules, we have a good place with a good sky to observe the rising of Sun, Moon and planets.

The telescope I use to sketch is a Bresser 1000/102.

The two first sketches were made in this place; the watercolour was made just after the occultation, 5 km further. How many occultation this megalithic dolmen has seen?

On the watercolor, we can see the planet Venus and perceive the Hyades open cluster with Aldebaran

That was very early but,… what a wonderful spectacle !
Kind regards

Michel Deconinck
http://astro.aquarellia.com

Jupiter Occultation
Jupiter Occultation
Jupiter Occultation
Jupiter Occultation

Lights at Dawn

Conjunction - July 15, 2012 - Venus, Jupiter, Moon, Aldebaran, Pleiades and Hyades
Conjunction - July 15, 2012 - Venus, Jupiter, Moon, Aldebaran, Pleiades and Hyades

Planetary conjunction at dawn: Venus, Jupiter, Moon, Aldebarán, Pléyades and Hyades.
Drawing made at 5:30 in the morning from the balcony of house in a village near Toledo, Spain.
July 15, 2012

Sketch made with graphite on white paper, inverted with Photoshop.
The sky was crystal clear and pristine,
Alpha
A beautiful sight for the eyes… although it should be up early enough to see.

Hope you like it.

Leonor

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C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) and Messier 45

Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) and the Pleiades
Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) and the Pleiades

Hey Artists!

I send you one of my observations of C/ 2004, Q2, Machholz
passing the well known open cluster Pleiades (M. 45).
The comet was a splended and interesting object to see in my 10 x 50 binos.
with over 90 deg. splitted dust and gastail and greenish coma. Info on sketch.
I used pen and pencil on white paper and inverted.
Location : Trondheim, Norway.

Thank you for all nice comments on my sketches!!

Best wishes and clear sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Messier 11 (NGC 6705)

Messier 11
Messier 11

Although my backyard observing spot shows no hint of the Milky Way on the best nights, if the skies are transparent and steady I have respectable views of many deep sky targets.

On this night I decided to sketch one of them high in the southern sky.

M 11 is a rich open or galactic cluster in the northern sky on a good summer night. Some 500 stars of this cluster’s 2900 are brighter than 14th magnitude and it glows at magnitude is 6.3. Many suns here are very hot B class and densely packed from our perspective. Faint members scintillate in the ocular as your eye adjusts to them. This open cluster was discovered by Gottfried Kirch in 1681 and resolved into individual stars in 1733 by William Derham. At 6000 light years it is about half the distance of the nearest globular clusters and just as splendid.

Sketching:

9″x11″ white sketching paper; 6B, 4B, HB graphite pencils and a blending stump;

Scanned and inverted

Scope: 10″ f/5.7 Dobsonian: 13 mm widefield eyepiece 111x

Date and Time: 6-18-2012, 06:00-06:50 UT

Seeing: Pickering 8/10

Transparency: above average 3.5/5

Location: Constellation: Scutum

R.A. 18h 51.1m

Dec. -06° 16′

Frank McCabe