Category: Nebulae

Giant Veil Nebula

Subject: Giant Veil Nebula

Hello Artists,all o.k.?I’m in holyday in this moment,the break from work,so, for me….very good days!!!
I sent my first sketch of great nebula in Cygnus made with my dobson 10″ and great old eyepiece,the Meade “Reserch Grade”12,4mm + UHC-S.
At first time i want made this sketch in one page of my album,but….the impressive dimension oblige me for two pages!
I sent you three photos of sketch,the particulars and totally of this.It’s impossible to insert in my scanner….
Excuse me for my english,clear sky.
At next and compliments at all sketchers for your works.
Ciao a tutti,Giorgio.

Site:Pergola,Serraspinosa Hill 400 meters of altitude,
Marche Region,Center Italy.
Date:2 of August 2010
Instrument:Dobson GSO 10”
Eyepiece:Meade 12,4mm “Reserch Grade”
Filter:Baader UHC-S
Seeing :Good
Air: Fresh,no wind.
Technics:White pencill and penn on black paper “Fabriano 3”

Giorgio Bonacorsi

L’Croissant

Object Name : NGC 6888
Object Type: emission nebula
Location : Villard-de-Lans, France
Date : 08/07/10
Media : graphite pencil on white paper

This sketch was made with a 250/1200 Dobsonian telescope, using a 24mm
wide-angle eyepiece and a UHC filter, in the courtyard of a pretty
mountain farm in the French Prealps.

Thank you for running this great webpage !

best regards,

Dan

Explosion in the Keel

Observation of eta Carinae

Object information

Object name:

eta Carinae

Object type:

Star

Magnitude:

-0.80

RA:

10h 45m 30s

Dec:

59° 44′ 39″ S

Constellation:

CAR

Observation details

Date of observation:

12 avr. 2010 19:05 UT

Length of observation:

58 min

Object position:

Alt: 52.0°, Az: 166.8°

Weather conditions:

Day: ++/- (33% cumulus) Wind V2-3, temp 30°, humidity 31%, Transparency 1 (on a scale from 1, best, to 5, very bad

Observation conditions:

Nught: SQM 21.57 in Crv (60° high), limited nake eye mag in Crv 7.2, seeing quite good S2/156 3/280 4/520 4-5/725

Observing site:

Namibie Tivoli

Instrument:

TN 508 Dobson Tivoli

Main eyepiece:

Televue Nagler 9mm Type 6

Barlow:

(None)

Magnification:

282x

Notes:

x282 Nagler 9mm, then

x529 Nagler 4.8mm, then

x725 Nagler 3.5mm

I have to increase gradually the power in order to have a deep and detail view of the object, then decrease it to improve the contast, and the color.

with 282x, The two small lateral “mustaches” are obvious, and precisely analysable, with the luminosity of their end decreasing regulary. The two dark spots of the SE lobe are well separated, and also analysable, including their shape, and orientation. The NW lobe is as large as the opposite one, but much less luminous, L3 instead of L6, in a scale from 1, limit, to 10, extremely bright.

The color is fantastic: deep, vivid, and strong orange. The star, itself, is even more saturated ! Probably the most beauteful orange anywhere in the sky

This drawing is the third I did.: Eta Carina is an extraordinary object, very much detailed, and each time, you discover new features.

Pencil and ink of China on Canson paper 21 x 29.7 cm, 200gr/cm2, then scanned, and some improvements with Paintshop Pro.

Much more details on my website: www.deepsky-drawings.com

Bertrand Laville

Sparkling Lagoon

-Messier 8 / NGC 6523
-Emission Nebula
-Connecticut, USA
-August 6, 2010
-Black and grey colored pencil on white paper, black uni-ball pen to accentuate stars, and eraser to help smudge nebulosity. Drawing photographed with Panasonic DMC-TZ3 and imported to Photoshop for inverting, and slight blurring to “nebulize” the actual emissions while keeping stars intact.

Observed in an orange/yellow zone with a 203mm Newtonian. M8 was sketched as seen with a Lumicon UHC filter which created an extremely noticeable improvement in the extent of the region’s nebulosity. Transparency was judged to be about a seven out of ten.

Paul Schneider

Dumbbell or Apple Core

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

Gem of Lyra

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

Exquisite Swan

This is my sketch for M17(NGC 6618) , also known as Omega Nebula or, more descriptive, Swan Nebula.

This emission nebula is probably, after Orion one, the one that offers more detail and structures to the eye of a northern observer. This was not the best sight I have got from this faint structure, but I did my sketch anyway, for the star party AstroBonilla 2010.

It was rendered in Bonilla, Cuenca, Spain, 2010/078/10 00:30 UT using graphite bars on white paper. Then scanned, inverted and a bit of levels balance. The telescope was a 10′ newton in dobson mount, with a Baader Hyperion 17mm eyepiece (75x 55′ FOV) and a UHC filter.

More details about the drawing, the nebula, and link to the original raw drawing in my blog (in spanish) at http://qfwfqestuvoalli.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/m-17-nebulosa-del-cisne/

Jorge Arranz

A Perfect Ring Planetary

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

Fuzzy Cocoon

Tom Corstjens

Observer: Tom Corstjens
Object Name: IC 5146 – Cocoon Nebula – Caldwell 19
Object Type: H-II Emission nebula
Location: Zillebeke, Belgium (during Starnights event – see www.starnights.be)
Date: 23 August 2009 – 0h25 UT
Media: graphite pencil on white paper, scanned & digital negative.

Equipment: Trusstube Dobson 220mm F/5.9
Eyepiece: Televue Plössl 17mm
Magnification: 77x
Filter: Lumicon UHC 1.25 inch
Seeing / transparency: good

Comments:
Very diffuze emission nebula, situated around 2 bright stars with most detail on north side. Different dark structures visible with long use of off-axis observation technique.
A nice starcluster can be found north of the Cocoon nebula, at low power the dark nebula Barnard 168 is very obvious!

Other sketches from the author can be found at: www.deepskylog.org (select language “Nederlands”, since my comments are in Dutch)
Enjoy & best wishes