Nebulae – Page 25 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

The Full Veil

Dear ASOD, hereby sending my sketch of the Veil nebula.

I wanted to sketch the whole Veil ever since I first saw this breathtaking nebula, but it’s so huge that I was never brave enough to give it a start. Some weeks ago I decided to give it a try, and here’s the result.

It took about 2 hours to finish, with all stars and nebulous areas drawn at the eyepiece in one session. As I’m observing from a very steep valley, my horizon is very high, so it was a real race with the time – perhaps that’s why a lot of stars are missing from the “less important” regions.

The sketch covers an area of about 4 times 1.5 FoV’s, done with a 12″ dobsonian, Baader Hyperion 21mm EP (71x), and a cheap O-III filter. Used an A/4 sketchbook, B and 5B pencils. Inverted on computer. Date/time: 08.27.2011 01:00-03:00 UT. Location: Nádasdladány, Hungary. SQM: 21.16m/arcsec^2.

Clear skies, Ferenc

The Blue Racquetball

Good morning, this is a ASOD submission:

Object Name: NGC 6572/Blue Racquetball
Object type: Planetary nebula
Location: Cittadella (Italy)
Date: June 27, 2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, later inverted and colored in Gimp
Instrument: 120 mm achromatic refractor (f/8.3)
Eyepiece: Planetary HR 4 mm
Conditions: Clear with some light pollution

Best Regards,
Massimo Zecchin

Eastern Veil

Hello friends:

I order you the drawing that I realized last August 27 from the locality of ” The Canalosa ” (Spain). There treats itself of cloudy ” Ngc 6992 ” observed with a Dobson GSO of 10 ” and filter OIII.

A greeting.

Victoriano Canales

NGC 2392

Good morning,
I send you my sketch of planetary nebula NGC 2392. I made it on last tuesday. I like planetary nebulas and this is my favourite. Sketch was made on white paper with pencil. Then I inverted in Photoshop.

Clear sky,
Tom Perdoch

Messier 57

Object Type Planetary Nebula
Location Starogard Gdański, Poland
Date 17.08.2011
Time 10:40 PM
Media Graphic pencil, white paper-inverted in Gimp
Equipment SW 150/750 ,Baader Hyperion 13mm
Conditions Clear sky with moon light and some light pollution

Clear sky

Robert

The Eagle Has Landed

Hi all,

HOORAY! A clear dark sky!

This was my first visit to Wiruna, the dark sky site of the Astronomical Society of New South Wales (many thanks to Alex Comino for organizing my stay there 😉 ). This was the stomping ground of Scott Mellish, and it was such a great experience to meet some of his friends up there. He is so sorely missed.

Conditions started marvelously. Using my 17.5” dob, my first squiz of M16, had me gasping “There it is! There’s the Eagle!” So clear was the dark pillar system. So much so that I could also make out the distinct highlighted leading edge of the pillars! Even with an OIII filter! So cool!

This sketch of the Eagle took around two hours to complete.

It was also my first use of another treasure of an eyepiece, a Unitron 16mm Konig eyepiece. What a marvelous eyepiece! Not as long in eyerelief as newer eyepieces, but the image is one of the brightest I’ve seen, and easily has a 70* FOV.

Object: M16, The Eagle Nebula

Scope: 17.5” f/4.5 dob, push pull

Gear: Unitron 16mm Konig, 125X, + OIII filter, 33.6’ AFOV

Date: 2’nd June, 2011

Location: Wiruna, Ilford, Australia

Materials: White pastel, black & white charcoal pencils and white ink on A4 size black paper

Cheers,

Alex M.

Singing Swan in The Sky Lake

Object Type: Bright Nebula
Location: Seyedabad, Iran
Date: May 26, 2011
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper, Inverted in Photoshop

Eastern Veil Nebula

Object name:Eastern veil nebulae(NGC6992/NGC6995),RA 20h 56m 24s Dec +31d 43m 00s
Object type:Supernova remnant(Nebulae).
Location:Seyed abad-Firuzkuh-Iran(35º 38′ N , 52º 22′ E) .
Date:2011/07/01.
Time:2:30 local time (+3:30 GMT).
Media:Graphic pencil white paper-inverted in photoshop.
Equipment:200mm Dobsonian telescope-f/6-focal length 1200, Sky glow filter.
Eyepiece:30mm, Field:80º.
Conditions:Clear with some cirrus clouds.

The Veil Nebula was discovered visually by William Herschel in 1784 with his 18-inch reflecting telescope. The visible portions of the Veil Nebula appear to be segments of an expanding gas cloud. The gas cloud is believed to be the remnant of a supernova explosion, possibly 30,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Clear sky
Banafsheh Yaghoubi

Messier 27

Location: Nagyvarsány / Hungary
Observer: Cseh Viktor
Date: 2011/05/25
I made this picture with Photoshop CS2!

Clear Sky! 🙂

The Lord of the White Night

In my region in Northern Poland the Sun during the summer solstice does not come down even 12 degrees beneath horizon
However, the bright nebulae such M57 are still nicely visible.

Yesterday, before the moon rising …. I decided to sketch The Ring in power 167x. I used the Super Plössl UWA SW 58 with GSO nebular filter and Newton Sky-watcher 12 ”

I tried attentively to stare at the “pale disc”, it took me about 20-25minut . In the middle of this structure are week star or something else. I saw something like ghosts inside!

Yours, Robert

Sketch details:
Object Name M57 The Ring Nebula,
Object Type: Planetary Nebula
Location: Poland, Oborniki
Date: 21.06.2011 y,
Equipment: Sky-watcher 12″,GSO nebular filter, Super Plössl UWA SW 58
Object: – Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)