Nebulae – Page 29 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Trying to Touch the Great Nebula

Hi!

This is my very first sketch at asod. This sketch of the Great Nebula was made on november 14 in Ryczów, Poland.

object: Messier 42 – The Great Orion Nebula
location: Ryczów, Poland
date: november 14, 2010
instrument: Orion 200/1000, LVW 8mm

Katarzyna Kurdek

A Ghost in the Sky

Hey!

I send you the planetary M. 97, “A ghost in the sky”.

This planetary is faint with diffuse edge, and the “eyes” on > the limit of my telescope.
The central star is too faint for me, but in much larger scopes it > is visible.
M. 97 is often called “The owl”, but to me it looks like a > ghost. The colour was grey.
I used graphite pencil on white paper and inverted.
The observation was made outside Trondheim city, Norway.

Clear sky to all, from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

M42 and Her Companions

Object Name M42, M43 and NGC1977
Object Type Emission and Reflection Nebulaes
Location Budy Dłutowskie (near Lodz) in Poland
Date 01:00, 13th of November 2010
Media (graphite pencil, white paper, color invert)
Equipment: Binocular Celestron Skymaster 25×100
Observing conditions: Seeing 4/5; low light pollution (naked eye range – 6,2 mag)
Hi !
This is sketch of Messier 42 (Great Orion Nebula) and her companions M43 and ‘The Running Man’ (NGC 1977) in Orion Constellation.
During the observation through this big bino, arms of M42 are clearly visible. Structures inside the nebula are also visible but they are really really faint.
M43 and NGC 1977 are shapeless, lighter areas around nebulas central stars.

Greetings,
Łukasz

Fading Planetary Nebula

Abell 72
PK 59-18.1
Planetary Nebula
Delphinus
07/08/10
Ilford NSW Australia
56cm f5.0 dobsonian telescope
Field: 27′
Magnification: 218x with OxyIII filter
Sky Quality Meter reading: 21:65

Black Canford paper
White pen
White oil pencil
White pastel chalk
Soft white pencil
Paint brush

George Ogden Abell’s classic catalog of planetary nebulae contains 86 objects which are quite faint and challenging for avid deep sky observers.

A good example of what to expect when tracking down these elusive nebulae is the ghostly Abell 72 seen here.

Delphinus is a fair way north from my observing site, but the sky conditions on the night offered up some good transparency which assisted in observations.

Scott Mellish

The Blinking Planetary

Hey!

I send you N.G.C. 6826 “The blinking planetary”.

I could easely see the blinking from direct and inverted vision. The central star was bright, but I could
not see any inner ring in the nebula as some artists reports. The central area near the star appears
dark to me, but the nebula itself looks bright and easy. I am sorry, my drawings gets older and older, and so am I, but I have practiced astronomy for nearly 50 years , so…… But I think the D.S.- objects looks the same today!

Thank you very much for fine comments on my earlier sketches!
Clear sky to you all!!

from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

First Globular Cluster with a Planetary Nebula

Messier 15 (NGC 7078 in Pegasus)

Messier 15 is my favorite bright, compact, globular cluster in the fall night sky. At magnitude 6.2 it is a bright globular target from poor suburban skies. The brightest stars of this target resolve well in a 10 inch scope. This globular is 33,600 light years distant and just filled with ancient stars.
This cluster is one of the densest of the 158 Milky Way globular clusters. It is the very first known to contain a planetary nebula (Pease 1) discovered in 1928 at Mt. Wilson Observatory.
The sketch was made with a wide field 24mm eyepiece at 60 x. The inset contains a higher magnification sketch using a 9mm eyepiece at 160 x.

Sketching:
Messier 15 (NGC 7078)
Date and Time: 11-1-2010, 10:15pm – 11:00pm local time
Scope: 10” f/5.7 Dobsonian. 24 mm and 9 mm eyepieces 60x and 160x
8”x 12” white sketching paper, B and 4B graphite pencils,
blending stump, scanned and inverted
Seeing: Pickering 6/10
Transparency: Average 3/5
Faintest stars visible overhead 4.3
Temperature: 4°C (40°F)
Cluster magnitude: 6.2, brightest member stars 12th magnitude
Distance: 33,600 ly
Location Constellation: Pegasus

Frank McCabe

Field Hopping Around the Cygnus Loop

object : NGC 6992
type : supernova remain
Location : observatory of Mt Chiran (France, alt : 1905m)
Date : 2010.08.04
Media : pastel, white pencil, black paper
Equipment : 12″ Newtonian 24 panoptic UHC Filter

Good transparency, 2 hours of sketching

Boris Emeriau

“Perhaps the Finest…”

Hey !

I send you the planetary M.27, “The manual”.

This is a easy object, bright and perhaps the finest in the
northern hemisphere. But M.57 is the most
special for us in Norway. I did not see any central star in this
planetary, and the “ears” were very faint.
It is a very splendid object in small telescopes too. More info on
my sketch!
I used crayons (watercolours) on black paper only.
The sketch was made outside Trondheim city, Norway.

Clear skies, from Per-Jonny Bremseth.