Dear ASOD!
This is old, but very beautiful sketch.
Kisújszállás (Hungary)
Date: 2009. 07. 27.
Seeing: 8/10
Transparency: 10/10
Equipment: 150/1200 Newton
Mag.: 240x
FOV: 14.5′
Technique: pencil, graphite pencil, white paper, inverted,
Thank you,
János Tóth
This is my sketch of M27 (NGC 6853), the Dumbbell Nebula, sometimes called Apple Core.
This planetary nebula is probaly the best one to show for the first-time-on-scope ones who want to know about the future of our Sun. It’s the brightest, bigger and sharper one, just Hellix surpases it, but not in surface brightness nor in contrast.
The drawing was done just before the Swan one published in ASOD on July 21st, 2010, and also shows how fast the sky quality can change in a few hours and with some degrees more above the horizon.
It was rendered on Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, on July 9th, 22:25UT, with graphite bar and stump in white paper, then scaned, inverted, and level balanced. I used my 10′ dobson with a Baader Hyperion 17mm (75x 55’FOV).
I encourage every observer to draw what they see, just because they’ll see even more as they do. Slowly, more people are joining the “pencil crew” here, and I hope you will see more results in those pages soon.
Jorge Arranz
2010 July 7, 0408 UT
M57, NGC6720, the Ring Nebula
Constellation Lyra, Planetary Nebula Type 4+3, ~1500-2000 light years away
0>71”, m8.8v
PCW Memorial Observatory, Zanesville, Ohio USA – Erika Rix
16” Zhumell, 12mm Burgess, 3x Barlow, magnification 450x
Sketch created scopeside with white photocopy paper, #2 pencil,
ultra-fine black marker. Template from www.perezmedia.com.
M57 never fails to please, just like other objects such as the Double
Cluster, M13 and M27. This is the first time I’ve used the 16” on this
planetary nebula and took advantage of the aperture to increase
magnification. I was particularly interested in looking for structure
within the ring as well as a richer star field. It most likely wasn’t
the optimal magnification to use, but seeing was rock steady and I was
itching to give it a try.
This object resembled a scrunched up American football, not quite as
oblong, but most certainly not completely round. The two ends were
fainter than the middle portions of the ring, which had strands of
brightened areas to the NW and SE sections of the ring. There was one
particular area to the northern area of the ring that could have passed
for a star, but not defined. It was more or less just a bright spot
within the ring. The center of the nebula was a hazy darker gray, also
appearing oblong. I couldn’t detect the ever-elusive central star.
Erika Rix
A Perfect Ring Planetary in Scorpius NGC 6337
Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard
Location: R.A. 17h 22m; Dec. -38° 29’ (J2000)
Translation from French with Google Translator
An extraordinary adventure with the club. We started three weeks in May 2010 in , a journey of 5,500 km from to San Pedro, making many raids on the slopes of the Andean altitude. The sky was not perfect as we expected. But in the camps on foot domes of La Silla Paranal or lost in the middle of the pampas, we made some excellent observations with our own travel gear. For my part, the use of T400-c is a real pleasure, gear totally adapted to this kind of situation….. NGC 6337 is watching shamelessly, provided you push the magnification on this ring almost perfect.
Serge Vieillard
The Ghost of Jupiter (NGC 3242) Near the Zenith
Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard
This was an extraordinary adventure with the club. We spent three weeks in May 2010 in Chile, a journey of 5,500 km from Santiago to San Pedro, making many raids on the slopes of the Andean to altitude…. For my part, the use of T400-c (16 inch) is a real pleasure, gear fully adapted to this kind of situation…. The last (night) seems the most faithful to reality, the big globe including the central star was superimposed on the weak part of the expanding debris. The opportunity of the “Ghost of Jupiter” at the zenith was irresistible. The equipment was pushed to the maximum with 575x.
Object: NGC 3242 Planetary Nebula “Ghost of Jupiter” – Artist: Serge Vieillard – Sketch Date: May 2010
Messier 27 – The Dumbell Nebula
By Mariano Gibaja
Object Name: M 27 – NGC 6853
Object Type: Planetary nebula. Constellation Vulpecula. Position 20h 00m
+22º 43′
Location: Bonilla (Cuenca) SPAIN
Date: 15-May-2010
Medium used: Graphite pencil, white paper. Photoshop:inverted
Equipment used: SCT 8″ 36mm (Hyperion Aspheric) 56X
It is the first planetary nebula observed by Messier. It lies about 1050
light years away in the constellation Vulpecula and is the most easy and
affordable to all telescopes.
NGC 7293 – The Helix Nebula
Sketch by John Eaccarino
Object Name: NGC7293, Helix Nebula
Object Type: Planetary Nebula
Location: Bandera, Texas, USA
Date: 11/17/09
Time: 19:34 CST
Conditions: Clear; Seeing 3/5; Transparency 5/5
Equipment: 280mm SCT, 40mm EP, DGM-NPB (UHC type nebula filter)
Medium: 0.7mm Graphite pencil on white paper. Scanned and color inverted.
NGC 2392
Sketch and Details by Stefano Delmonte
NGC 2392 planetary nebula in Gemini
Location: Priorato , one of the most prestigious wine zone of Spain!
13-march.2010
Graphite pencil one white paper, then with photoshop: inverted and rounded stars.
I use sketching in order to show and record in one image all the information the retina can catch in a large observing session.
The night that the association I’m part of organized the Messier marathon, I decided to be a bad boy and move to NGC.
The reason were a good seeing, a brief look at Mars confirm an Antoniadi III , the best part of sky is always zenith and there were NGC2392 waiting to be explored at good conditions.
At first either the central star and the double shell were easily seen, but only after more than 30 minutes observing, the “face” orientation did appear.
I didn’t care too much about what resemble because at the end of all an exploded star is really a fantastic sight anyway!
Ciao, Stefano.
Messier 46 and NGC 2438
Sketch and Details by Simas S.
“That was not so easy thing to mark all those cluster members. I’m sure I missed some 🙂 But… job done :)”
Graphite HB pencil on white paper. Processed with PS CS4.
Simas S.
NGC 2392 – The Eskimo Nebula
Sketch and Details by Ferenc Lovró
I’ve sketched this planetary about a year ago, I did not mark it as “SKETCHED” in my list of objects, so the result is a new drawing. However, when I compared the two sketches, it was obvious to make this mistake, because now – even if conditions were not ideal thanks to the 50% Moon nearby – I was able to see and record much more details: the brighter arcs around the central star were not at all visible for me, but now they were easily noticeable. The UHC filter was not necessary to observe this object, however it boosted the intensity of the brighter central bubble.
Sketching:
Constellation: Gemini
Right ascension: 7h 30m; Declination: 20° 53′
Date/time: 2010.02.21 20:00 UT
Equipment: 12″ f/5 Newtonian
FoV: 11′ Magnification and filter(s): 300x + UHC filter(s)
Seeing: 7/10 Transparency: 3/5
Observer: Ferenc Lovró
Location: Nádasdladány, Hungary
Object: Planetary Nebula NGC 2392 also known as: Caldwell C39, Herschel H45-4, Eskimo or Clown Face Nebula
