02_Media – Page 49 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Venus at Inferior Conjunction

Venus - January 12, 2014 — Venus – January 12, 2014

Object name: Venus
Object Type: Planet
Location: Lochem, The Netherlands.
Date: january 12th, 2014
Media: The sketch was created using Photoshop Elements 6.

Comments:
Sunday in the afternoon I got the chance to find Venus 5 degrees above the sun!
The planet was visible as a small white arc.
I used a 8” Dobsonian telescope equipped with a 27 mm Panoptic eyepiece, that yielded 50x.
Location: Lochem, The Netherlands.
After a few minutes I switched to the 10 mm Delos, 135x.
Then I observed and waited for moments of relatively calm air.
These moments came and on then I was sure that the arc closed completely around the disk.
Adding to that I was also convinced that I saw the famous “Ashen Light”.
A controversial effect because how can the backside of Venus be visible in a daylight sky?.

Greetings,
Tom Borger

NGC5139, NGC104 and Messier 13

Hello,

this is my first submission to the ASOD.

Object Name: NGC5139-NGC104-M13
Object Type: globular clusters
Location: Namibia
Date: August, 2nd 2013
Media: graphite pencil for the initial draft then scan and digital work for the final sketch.
Instrument: Home-made 14″ travel-scope, F/D 5, dobsonian. Eyepiece 20mm Plössl. Field 34′.
Observing conditions: Slight turbulence, good transparency, no light pollution.

Comment:

Under the wonderful sky of Namibian desert, one of the dryest and darkest of the world, I’ve foolishly decided to draw the 3 big.
Scaring idea for a sketcher, as the globular clusters are known for being undrawable. Obviously the idea was not to spot each star, but only to make a rendering comparison of these 3 big, mainly interesting for northern observers who have not often the possibility to look at those famous southern globular clusters in Centauri and Tucanae constellations. With the same instrument, the same night and the same duration of the observation (half an hour each), Omega Centauri and 47 Tucanae are bright and deeply resolved, whereas the Herculis cluster looks like a fuzzy patch of light grains. Poor dethroned cluster!
Hope it tickles your traveller spirit!

I wish ASOD’s team a happy new year and clear skys!

Best regards.

Laurent THENARD.
France.

Bi-Polar Reflection Nebula in Orion

At last a chance has come over these holidays to do some observing. Top of my list is Wolfgang’s Webb Society object of the season , Bi-polar reflection nebula in Orion, NGC 2163, not even listed in the Keppler & Sanner bible!

In the last hour I picked the nebula up readily enough by star hoping to the target but had to keep the exposure time of the video camera shorter than usual due to the residual breeze. That said I’m pleased with the result, it is an interesting object and a first observation for me. Appearing as a bow tie N-S in position there are a couple of dark notches visible and a short dust lane in the lower lobe in my sketch. I hope other member get sketches and images too.

NGC 2163 - Observing form — NGC 2163 – Observing form

Happy New Year, Dale

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Eta Carina – The Goliath through a 4″ Refractor

Hello all,

I finally got to go bush with my latest scope acquisition, and my smallest scope, a 4” achro refractor. I was spoilt for choice for potential targets, but I settled on one target I’ve sketched four times previously, Eta Carina. The previous sketches of Eta Carina were done with an 8” (once) and my 17.5” (twice) and once with my binos from my home. But this time, I had the opportunity to chase the full extent of the visible nebulosity of this celestial giant. With the single eyepiece I took on this outing, this little refractor gives me a whopping TFOV of 5°! This would be the perfect weapon and dark sky combination to tackle this target.

Oh my goodness! How much detail is visible! At first glance the nebulosity is nice and compact. As the sketch developed, and I slowly examined the scene, the nebulosity kept on reaching further and further out. Add to this the mottling of the background Milky Way star field that surrounds Eta Carina. I also spotted a couple of faint open clusters in the field of view.

The sketch doesn’t show the full extent of the TFOV – the sheet of paper wasn’t big enough! I was spent after this too.

I hope you find this sketch to your liking.

Alex.

Object: Eta Carina, NGC 3372
Scope: 4” f/5 refractor
Gear: 30mm Explore Scientific 82°, 17X, plus OIII filter
Date: 3rd January 2014
Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Media: White soft pastel, charcoal and white ink on A4 size black paper.

Mount Leibnitz and Environs

Hello artists,we come in New Year,i hope good Year for all.
I sent one of my last Moon Sketch,made with my dobson 10″ and 12,4 mm
Erfle plus Barlow.
I hope to made in future other sketches with this technics.Frank Mc Cabe
is the Master of this.
I hope like you.
Auguri a tutti di un Bello e Limpido 2014!!!
Ciao,Giorgio.

Site: Pergola,Center Italy,behind my home.
Date: 24 September 2013.
Moon phase: Down (19,6 days)
Instrument: Dobson Gso 10″
Eyepiece: 12,4mm erfle plus Barlow(201,6 x)
Seeing: Good
Zone: Mount Leibnitz ( 8.000 meter of altitude).
Media: White pencil on black paper.

Beautiful Hydra Cluster

Object Name: Hydra Cluster or Abell 1060.
Location: Capitán Sarmiento, Buenos Aires Argentina.
Date: 05/01/2014.
Media: 2H, 2B, HB. Blend stump. Photoshop.
Telescope: Meade LB 12″ on equatorial tracking platform.
Eyepiece: Explore Scientific 11mm N2 82º.

First star party of the year and first non-digital sketch. Hope you like it!

Sunspot AR1944

Object Name: Sunspot AR1944
Object Type: sunspot
Location: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country, Spain)
Date: 6-1-2014
Media: graphite pencil on white paper.

This is a sketch of the biggest sunspot I´ve ever seen. It´s so amazing that can be drawn with small telescopes like the one I´ve used: the Astro-Professional ED80 equiped with binoviewer, a pair of 19 mm eyepieces and a 2.6x galsspath, that gives a magnification of 78x. I have used a Baader solar film to observe the sun with security. Although the seeing was not good at all, the view was great and unforgettable.

Best regards.

David Sedano

Sacrobosco and Environs

Hi Guys, this is my Second lunar sketch… Today, moon was really good from my house…
So Tried it….

Location: Bangalore, India.
Date: 8-Nov-2013
Media: HB Graphite pencil(Click pencil), Eraser, 8B pencil….
Instrument: 130mm f-6.9 Newtonian.

Pls Do comment how I can improve….

C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) – December 4, 2013

Hey ASOD!

This time I send a sketch of comet LOVEJOY from todays morning.
The observation was made with 166x magn. on my telescope.
The comet is a really nice one with both binos and telescope!
Info on my sketch.
I used graphite pencil on white paper and inverted in color.
Location : Trondheim, Norway.

Clear sky to all of you from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

The Miracle of Jupiter

Jupiter - October 27, 2013 — Jupiter – October 27, 2013

Hi everyone!

I didn’t like observation of solar system members.

Since it’s strong brightness, I can’t make dark adaption in my eyes.

One day, under the moonlight.. I didn’t find deepsky anymore..

So I started observing & sketching the Jupiter.

Because it’s altitude is proper to observing with my 15″ Dob!

The more I saw the Jupiter, the more structure appeared my eyes.

It is a kind of miracle!

Unfortunately, I don’t have experience of Jupiter sketching.

It is not good planet sketch.. but it is my first true experience of observing Jupiter!

Object Name : Jupiter
Object Type : Planet

Location : S. Korea
Date : Oct. 27, 2013
Media : White paper, Sharp pencel