Road Leading to the Cottage Cepheus

Road Leading to the Cottage Cepheus

Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
Sketch and Details by Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

Hy!
There are charming couple of lovers, at the road leading to the cottage Cepheus .
Cluster and galaxy … NGC 6946 +6939

Best regards
Robert

Object Name : NGC 6946 +6939

Object Type: Open cluster and Galaxy
Location: Poland/ eastern Poland ,
Date: 20.08.2009 y, and 30.08.2009 y,
Equipment: Meade Light Bridge 12”, and SWAN 25mm. and UWA SW 13mm

Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

Seven Enchanting Sisters

Seven Enchanting Sisters

M45, The Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus
Sketch and Details by Tomás Ruiz Lara

This Sketch was done with a common pencil and with cotton to sketch the nebulae around the stars (Taygeta, Maia, Electra and Alcyone).
Equipment used, 114 mm newtonian reflector f/8 with a Vixen Plössl 32 mm (28x).
What to say about M 45? The most famous open cluster of the northern hemisphere. The vision with an eyepiece with low magnification is spectacular.
Seeing: 3/5
Phase of the Moon: Gibbous

Object Name: M 45, The Pleiades
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Úbeda, Jaén, Spain.
Date 25 – Sept – 2007

Tomás Ruiz Lara

A Very Close Globular in Scorpius

A Very Close Globular in Scorpius

M4 (NGC 6121) a large nearby globular cluster in Scorpius
Sketch and Details by Jorge Arranz

Hello,

Here is my sketch of M4, globular cluster in Scorpius, and second nearest to Earth, just after FSR 1767.

It was done from Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, on 7/18/2009, using a Dob Lightbidge 10″, with a SWAN 15 mm eyepiece, giving 85x and 51’FOV.

Jorge Arranz

The Diamond Sphere

Diamond Sphere

M13 (NGC 6205) The Great Globular star cluster in Hercules
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Hello!
This is sketch of Messier 13 – the Great Globular Cluster of Hercules from the Tapadla Defile – one of the main meeting place of observers from Wroclaw and parts.

Object: Messier 13
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with LVW 13mm
Date: August 20th 2009.
Place: Tapadla Defile (Tąpadła). Bottom Silesia. Poland
Weather: Excellent. Seeing 4,5/5. Transparency 5/5.
Technique: Graphite pencil.
Tooling: GIMP2.

Aleksander Cieśla

Riding the Back of the Scorpion

Riding the Back of the Scorpion

M4 (NGC 6121) A large Globular cluster in Scorpius
Sketch and Details by Jeff Young

This is another sketch from our summer trip to Colorado. This one was quite late in the evening, and the temperature had dropped to only a few degrees above freezing (this in the middle of July, mind you). My hands had gotten cold enough that I was wearing fingerless gloves, which made twirling the pencil for the pinpoint stars a bit more difficult.

M4, globular cluster in Scorpius.

Sketched from high altitude (11,000’) on Hoosier Pass in Colorado.

HB and 3H pencil on white cardstock; scanned and inverted in Photoshop.

10” Dall-Kirkham (Mewlon) on AP600EGTO mount; UO 32Mk-80; 100X.

Cheers,

— Jeff.

Heavenly Sisters

Heavenly Sisters

M45, The Seven Sisters
Sketch and Details by Per-Jonny Bremseth

Hey!

I send you “Heavenly Sisters”.

The open cluster M.45 or “Pleiades” is a very fine object to
observe with binoculars and telescope.
I made a study of this cluster in some clear nights in nov.2003.
First I observed M.45 with a 10×50 binocular, then I observed with
my 20.3 cm. SCT, f/10 with different oculars.
To see the Meropenebula, I blocked out the star Merope with
50x on my telescope, swept slowly over the area south of the star
and at last I could see this faint nebula.
The “Seven sisters” have got many babies do I see, with
whom, Perseus??
I used crayons (watercolours) on black paper only.

My observation was done north of Trondheim city, Norway,

Best wishes from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

ET or Owl?

ET or Owl?

The ET or Owl Cluster
Sketch and Details by Carlos Eugenio Tapia Ayuga

Hello,

Tonight I made a drawing of the ET cluster. Is done directly in
Photoshop at 83x of magnification.

My equipment at the time of having the picture was:
– Eyepiece: Clavé Paris 12 mm
– Telescope: Vixen achromatic refractor 102/1000

Object name: OWL Cluster or ET Cluster
Object type: Open Cluster
Location: San Fernando de Henares, Spain
Date: July 31, 2009

The transparency of the night was so poor and I live in a town with
a lot of light pollution.
I draw the cluster with the laptop in my legs and drawing it
directly since I view the cluster with the telescope.

Sorry for my poor english.

Sincerely yours:

Carlos Tapia

A Faint Globular in the Serpent Bearer

A Faint Globular in the Serpent Bearer

NGC 6517, a faint globular cluster in Ophiuchus
Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró

Globular Cluster NGC 6517 in Ophiuchus

This is a very faint globular cluster that seems to be elongated in the N-S direction. Its core brightens softly, but it refuses to split up into stars even with HYPERLINK “http://www.graphitegalaxy.com/index.cgi?tutpage=AVERTED” averted vision and it also fails to respond to increasing magnifications. The object sits in the middle of some brighter stars that form a giant V-letter, pointing to the West.

Right Ascension: 18h 02m
Declination: -8° 58′
Constellation: Ophiuchus
Date/time: 2009.06.18 22:00 UT
Equipment: 12″ f/5 Newtonian
FoV: 16′ Magnification and filter(s): 250x
Seeing: 7/10 Transparency: 4/5
Location: Nádasdladány, Hungary
Observer: Ferenc Lovró

Conspicuous and Pretty

Conspicuous and Pretty

The Open Cluster M23 (NGC 6949) in Sagittarius
Sketch and Details by Kiminori Ikebe, translation by Eiji Kato

M23 (NGC 6949) Open Cluster in Sagittarius

This is an open cluster located east of M24. Through binoculars you can see M23, M24, and M25 from east to west, M18, M17, and M16 in the north, and M8, M20, M21 and M22 in the south. This area is a treasure trove of open clusters and nebulae. It is large and contains many stars. Stars are fairly bright with similar brightness providing a fine sight. Many arch-shaped lines of stars look overlapping. Near the center stars form a number of small conspicuous squares. There is a star at the edge of the northwestern side and a line of stars run toward it. These asterisms are conspicuous and pretty.

Date of observation: 2001/05/03 02:49
Observing site: Kuju
Transparency / seeing / sky darkness: 2/1/3 out of 5
Instruments: 32 cm Dobsonian with XL21 at 70x. 
Width of field: 0.9°

The Great Sagittarius Globular Cluster

The Great Sagittarius Globular Cluster

M22 (NGC 6656) Globular Cluster
Sketch by Janis Romer and text by Frank McCabe

Janis has beautifully captured the ancient, large, bright gravity held group of stars known as M 22. Only Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae of the 140 or so globular clusters are brighter. This beauty of more than 100,000 suns scintillates above the lid of the teapot in Sagittarius. Specifically it is located at R.A. 18h 36m; Dec. -23° 54′. It is well placed if you are not too far north. At a distance of 10,400 light years away it is close to us and shines at about 5th magnitude.
William Herschel may have been the first observer to recognize this patch of light as a cluster of faint stars.
As you can see in this fine sketch many stars are visible here using a telescope of 8″ aperture. Hundreds of the stars are as bright as 11th magnitude in M 22. Currently this globular cluster is receding from us at 144 km. /sec as it orbits the center of the Milky Way.