Star Clusters – Page 33 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

A Stellar Jewel Box

NGC 4755
Location: R.A. 17h 22min.;Dec. -38° 29′

Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard

Translation from French with Google Translator

Observation during my travels in Chile 2010 … Although the galaxies which we are familiar with parade at the zenith, I’m focusing mainly on those unknowns….
During the twilight, I felt the black night drawing my arms to open the “jewel box”. Despite the colorful and sympathetic vision of the object, I confess I do take great pleasure in this kind of exercise.

Serge Vieillard

Glorious Globular

Messier M5
Observed at Bristol UK

5th June 2010; 00:30am using Nexstar 8SE

Sketched at the scope over 30 mins using a black on white template and transfered to Photoshop. I could observe several coils of stars around a bright and mottled core with sparks of light (resolved stars) across the disk and at the edges under the highest magnification.

Chris Lee

Globular Cluster in the Eagle

A Globular Cluster in the Eagle (NGC 6760)

Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró

Faint, diffuse globular cluster with a perfect circular shape and a core that’s getting brighter only very gently. For me it was not resolveable, although it shows a faint star on its southern side, that may be a part of the cluster. Unfortunately the Jászszentlászló sky that was excellent this far was now ruined by the quickly increasing humidity in the air. Fortunately meanwhile this happened, the seeing got much better, so it made me a little happier on this almost Winter-like night. SQM reading: 21.20 m/arcsec^2, 9°C.

Right ascension: 19h 12m; Declination: 1° 3′
Constellation:
Date/time: 2009.07.25 23:45 UT
Equipment: 12″ f/5 Newtonian
FoV: 19′; Magnification: 167x
Seeing: 7/10; Transparency: 3/5
Location:
Observer: Ferenc Lovró

Beautiful Stellar City

Object Name: M 3; NGC 5272 (Constellation of Canes Venatici)RA: 13h 42m; DE:
+28º 23′
Object Type: Globular Cluster
Location: Bonilla (Cuenca) SPAIN
Date: 15 May 2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted GIMP 2
Telescope: SCT 8″
Eyepiece: Baader Hyperion 13 mm
Mag.: 155X

M 3 is one of the brightest globular clusters and contains half a million
stars. It has many variable star RR Lyr type. It is located at a distance of
35,000 light years. It is a beautiful spectacle offered by the sky.

Mariano Gibaja

A Piece of Sagittarius

Sketch information:
Object name: A piece of Sagittarius
Scope: Skywatcher dobs 1200/200 + SWA 32mm
Place: Poland, Silesia, Skrzyszow
Seeing: 8/10 Transparency: 4/5
Date and time: 10.07.2010r, 23:50PM (21:00)
Technique: Pencil, GIMP
Author: Marek Płonka (Poland, Silesia)

Note: I’ve always used only pencil.
I use GIMP only to improvement brightness, contrast, resize and crop
images.Under clear, summer skies I was able to sketch this nice view.
I drew this picture moving from star to star, taking the view and sketching.
In my location there are still not dark nights, but I hope, you enjoy my view.

Marek Płonka

A Pile of Shimmering Diamonds

NGC 6266 (M-62)
Globular Cluster
Ophiuchus
41cm f4.7 Dobsonian telescope
Ilford NSW Australia
Field: 31′
Magnification: 159x
Sky Quality Meter reading: 21:15

Black Canford paper
White pen
White pencil

This Globular Cluster was very pretty at fairly low magnification, some
nice stars are scattered throughout the 31′ field

Scott Mellish

Open Cluster IC 4665

The distance to this cluster is about 1400 light year. IC 4665 is
in constellation Ophiuchus near the Beta Oph. It is a very loose
and bright object(4,2 mag.) and fantastic view in the binoculars
with small magnification.

Object name: IC 4665
Object type: Open Cluster
Location: Tarn√≥w , Poland
Date: 17 June 2010 r.
Time: 22:15 UT
Artist: Krzysztof Pieszczoch (Astrokrzychu)
Equipment used: Binocular 16X50 (2‚Ä≥) FOV 4,25 deg.
-pencil , rubber

Weather conditions:
Ä cool evening
– clear sky

Yours sincerely,
Krzysztof Pieszczoch

Wild Waterfowl

Hi!
That night the sky was full the stars, although we do not have an
astronomical night.
M11 The Wild Duck is a typical summer open cluster.
I used two glasses: Swan 25mm for a detail (112x power) and Hyperion
aspheric 31mm (power x 90.3) who gave me the field of view
M11 containing about 2900 stars, but we usually see the brighter
stars,
forming a triangle like flock of flying ducks.

Robert

author: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)
Object Name: The Wild Duck
Object Type (open cluster )
Location (Oborniki, Poland)

Date (04-06-2010)
Equipment: 11″ Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope + Heq5,
Eyepiece: WO Swan 25mm, Hyperion aspheric 31mm

The Globular and the Galaxy

Object Name: M 13 and NGC 6027 (Constellation of Hercules)
Object Type: Globular Cluster and Galaxy
Location: Bonilla-Cuenca SPAIN
Date: May 15, 2010
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted GIMP 2
Telescope: SCT 8″
Eyepiece: 31 mm Hyperion-Aspheric
Mag.: 65X

Mariano Gibaja

Spanish-English translation using Google Language Tools:
The globular cluster M 13 is my favorite to teach my friends. When my
friends look through the eyepiece you always hear the cry: Ohh! How
beautiful! No doubt this cluster is of the most beautiful and
impressive from the sky. It is located at a distance of 24,000 light years.
When I look at M 13 I never forget the small galaxy NGC 6027. It’s very nice to
see a galaxy and a globular cluster at a time.

Globular Cluster M13 and Galaxy NGC 6207

Messier 13 and NGC 6207
By Mariano Gibaja

Spanish-English translation using Google Language Tools:
The globular cluster M 13 is my favorite to teach my friends. When my
friends look through the eyepiece you always hear the cry: Ohh! How
beautiful! No doubt this cluster is of the most beautiful and impressive
from the sky. It is located at a distance of 24,000 light years. When I look
at M 13 I never forget the small galaxy NGC 6027. It’s very nice to see a
galaxy and a globular cluster at a time.