Category: Nebulae

In the Sword of the Hunter

Inverted by webmaster

M42
Diffuse nebula
I did this sketch in my back yard in Vernon B.C. Canada.I live in red zone light polution.
the sketch was made on Jan 9 2011 at 12:20 amPST
I pre loaded the sketching field with Graphite pencil.I made the Nebula with pencil smudged,as well as a blending stump.I have been using a felt tipped pen for my stars ,I am happy witht the results from it.I also used a kneedable erasor to remove the dark dust lane from between M42 and M43.

Tha sketch was made with an 8″ Dob with a 7mm Pentax XW 171X

Thanks
John Karlsson

Close and Far

Hey Artists!

I follow up with my own sketch of the remnant of the SN 1054, “The Crab Nebula”, (M. 1)
togather with a visitor, a comet which passed right over the western part of the Crab earlier
this day.
My sketch is old, but I think its still interesting.
I used crayons (watercolours) on black paper only. Info on my sketch.

The observation was made outside Trondheim, Norway.

Clear sky , Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Nebula and Open Cluster in the Unicorn

Object Name: NGC 2264
Type: Nebula and Open Cluster
Constellation: Monoceros.
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN.
Date: February 5, 2011
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Sketch processed with Photoshop.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt5
Eyepiece: 13 mm Hyperion (155X).
MALE: 5,7 Temp.: 1ºC

More information about the sketch and NGC 2264 in:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com/

The ineffable Beauties of Orion

The data of the drawing:
M43&M42

Telescope: 7×50 binoculars (Tento)
Date: .01.24.2011

Observing Location: Zakany – Hungary, 46° 15′ N 16° 57’E elev.: 129m
This digital drawing preparated GIMP 2.6 programs.

Thank you for it!

Clear Sky !

Tamas Bognar

http://tamasasztro.tk

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Üdvözlettel !
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Bognár Tamás

http://tamasasztro.tk

skype : bognartamas
msn : bognart@gmail.com

Southern Beauty

Object Name: Eta Carina Nebula (NGC3372)
Object Type: Nebulae
Location: Itajobi – SP – Brazil
Date: 30/12/2010 – 05h15min U.T.
Media: 0.5mm 2B graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and inverted.

Telescope: 180mm f/D=6 reflector, dob. mount.
Eyepieces: Antares Plössl 10mm; GSO Super Plössl 32mm (as seen in the picture).
Barlow: GSO three-element 2.5x
Turbulence: 3/5 (regular).
Seeing: 4/5 (good).
Fair wind, no clouds, high temperatures.

If you are allowed to point your telescope (or even a bino) toward south, you’ll be able to see this stunning deep sky object. I was waiting Saturn to rise, the sky was nice, cloudless. I had observed this object sometimes before, without knowing its name. That night I decided to sketch it, so I could search for its name later. Positioning each star was surely the hardest part. I’ve observed it from my backyard, not thoroughly dark, but enough to see incredible features, specially using the barlow lens. The Keyhole Nebula, inside Eta Carina Nebula, was amazing. That’s the way I like to sketch: knowing nothing about the object in advance, not to influence the register. I prefer researching about it after observing, it’s much more pleasant. I hope you enjoy it, I loved the image I’ve seen.

Clear sky to all,
Rodrigo Pasiani Costa.

Hind’s Variable Nebula

NGC 1555
“Hind’s Variable Nebula”
Reflection Nebula
Taurus
11/12/10
Ilford NSW Australia
56cm f5.0 dobsonian telescope
Field: 29′
Magnification: 166x
Sky Quality Meter reading: 21:60

Black Canford paper
White pen
White pencil
White pastel chalk
Paint brush

This somewhat mysterious reflection nebula was discovered by John Hind in 1852.
It began to fade in 1861 due to the wide fluctuations in brightness from the illuminating star T Tauri.
By 1868 it had disappeared from view to even the largest telescopes.
It was not observed again until 1890 when Edward Barnard and Sherburne Burnham managed to locate it.
Since the 1930s it has been gradually brightening but remains an observational challenge to deep sky observers.

In my 56cm dob the nebula could only just be seen as a diffuse patch about 1.0′ x 0.8′ in size just of to the lower right of T Tauri (top star).
Whether you can see it or not will depend on your monitor screen.

T Tauri is an irregular variable star around 600 ly away that can range from magnitude 9.0 to 14.0 in brightness.

I also noticed that the mag 8.4 star HD 27560 towards the bottom of the sketch seemed to have a very faint haze around it, which was either some light fog on the eyepiece, or the region around it may contain an amount of interstellar dust.

Incidentally a nebulosity was reported by Otto Struve in 1868 and known as “Struves Lost Nebula” in the vicinity of Hind’s Variable Nebula and given the catalogue number NGC 1554 by Dreyer.
The nebulosity was not seen by observers after Struve’s discovery and has not been located since.
Some Catalogues such as Sky Atlas 2000.0 group NGC 1554 and NGC 1555 together as a single object.
The Palomar Sky Survey plates do not show anything at the reported position.
It is possible that the Lost Nebula may have been a transient portion of the reflection nebula in this section of the sky.

Scott Mellish

Small Mist Above the Horse Head

Short description:

Object Name M78 in Orion
Object Type Reflection nebula
Location Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date 04.01.2011
Media graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope Meade SCT 8” f/10 with 40mm Willam Optics SWAN
Seeing 3/5
Transparency 3/5
NELM 4,5 mag

When we think or talk about Orion constelation, we usually mention M42, Horsehead nebula or Flame nebula.
And we forgot about small mist above horsehead – M78.

You can observe it in 15×70 bino (maybe in 10×50 too but I haven’t tried) – it looks like small fog around two small central stars.
In 8” telescope you can observe the “bell” shape of this nebula which is little brighter on the edge.
Soon I will look at it through the 13” Newtonian and I expect quite impressive view.

Clear sky
Łukasz