Object Name – Barnard’s Galaxy & Little Gem Nebula (NGC 6822 / NGC 6818)
Object Type – Galaxy / Planetary Nebula
Location – Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, California
Date – August 7, 2012
Media – Graphite pencil, white paper
Equipment – 15″ reflector (103X)
Conditions – Transparency 5/10 (Saguaro), seeing 7/10 (Pickering)
Aloha!
I submit a recent sketch from 4/14/12 of the Eta Carinae Nebula. It was not much above the horizon this night, perhaps 10 degrees. I had to sit on the ground to observe it using my 12.5” Portaball. Well worth the dirt on my bottom. A gasp was all I could manage after seeing it for the first time. The night was superb, with no wind & excellent seeing.
The nebula is massive, ~4 times larger than the Orion Nebula covering about 3 degrees of sky. It also contains Eta Carinae, one of most luminous & massive stars known. If we could put this star the same distance as our sun it would appear 5 million times brighter. It is partly obscured by gas & dust making it appear dimmer than it actually is.
Eta Carinae Nebula in Carina NGC 3372
Diffuse Nebula
Haleakala, Maui Hawaii ~10,000 elevation
4/14/12
Charcoal pencil & white paper
Sketch inverted with Photoscape
12.5” Portaball, NPB filter
27mm Panoptic 56X
M 16 Adlernebel GN Serpens
Teleskop: 16 ” 400/1800
100-184x
Filter: UHC /OIII
fst. 6m3, Bortle 3-4
Where: Eggelsbach 588m, Germany
When: 22/23.6.2012
Sketch time: 2,5h
Technik: White Paper and black graphite pencil
Lg Hajü from Germany
Hey,
I send my sketch of the planetary nebula M27. This is one of my favorite objects to observe the summer. Reminiscent of dumbbells for exercise. Draft reflects the view of the eyepiece PL25mm who get a 48x magnification. It also pointed star, which I took in the field of view. Before there was the effect of the white night, I decided to observe and sketch the object. Since this is a sketch object typoy summer I decided to send today to encourage all lovers of astronomy observations.
Thanks Very much:)
Date: 28 April 2012
Location: Psary in Poland
Tib object: a planetary nebula
Telescope: Newton 200/1200
Media: 2B pencil and white paper
Object Name: NGC246 – Skull Nebula
Object Type: Planetary Nebula (Cetus)
Observing Location: Sudelfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Date: 21. October 2012
Media: Chalk pencil on black paper
Observer: Christian Rausch
Telescope: 12inch / F5 Dobson (Hofheim Instruments)
Conditions:
– SQML = 21,3 mag/arcsec*2, seeing = good, Temp. +12C
– 167x (Nagler 13mm)
This time with the right annex….
Best Regards
Christian
My name is Maksymilian Novak-Zemplinski and I’d like to show what I can see through my new baby Newtonian reflector Pablitus 22″.
Best regards
MNZ
Oject name: M42 The Orion Nebula
Object type: nebula
Location: Tulowice , Poland
Date: 14 October 2012
Media: Acrylic/oil on panel
Equipment: Newtonian reflector dob PABLITUS 22″ f-3,75, Tele Vue Ethos 10mm eyepiece, Astronomik UHC filter
Seeing: 8/10
Here is my submission of to day: NGC 5189, one of the most structured planetary nebulae of the all sky.
The number of details is impressive in the 20” Obsession, and the pristine skies of Tivoli lodge, Kalahari desert, Namibia, during the new moon of last june.
Sketch has been made, as usual, directely on the screen of my computer, with lines of equal luminosity. From this sketch, and the detailed notes I wrote on my observing paperbook, I realised the final drawing some days after, with Paintshop Pro.
More details at http://www.deepsky-drawings.com/ngc-5189/dsdlang/fr
Regards
Bertrand
M20 (BN/DN in Sgr)
Location : Mt. Bo-Hyun, South Korea (1,100M)
Date : May/27/2012
Media : Black paper, White Pastel / Conte
Equipment : Discovery 15″ Dob, Pentax XL 14mm
Hi. ASOD and everyone.
Last May, the latitude of the M20 is enough than I think. So I observe the Trifid nebula. The most distinctive appearance is the asymmetric three-pronged dark lane and the two fuzzy star located in the middle of the nebula.
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조 강 욱 / Kang Uk, Cho
Object Name (M57 Ring Nebula)
Object Type (Planetary Nebula)
Location ( Zielona Gora, 51.9333°N, 15.5000°E )
Date ( September 14, 2012)
Media (graphite pencil, white paper)
4″ Maksutov, 25mm kellner, 52x, urban polluted sky
Object Name: M42
Object Type: Orion emission nebula
Location: Iran_Sabzevar
Date: 21/9/2012
Media: Black Cardboard with white Charcoal Lead Pencil
Im Shadi from a little town of Iran and I have pretty good conditions for observing!!! I can almost Observe most of Messier Objects and NGCs with my little 80 mm refractor telescope!
Shadi Shahraini:) happy
