In this year’s my vacation, I stayed an observatory.
The sky was not clear, so I drunk until dawn with my friends.
AM 4:00, I lay visitor’s room, and I saw cloudy moonlight outside of the window.
It was very fantastic! I drew a picture using my smart phone immediately.
Location : Star observatory in S. Korea
Date : Aug 1. 2013
Medoa : Smart Phone (SAMSUNG Galaxy Note 2), my forefinger
Hello,
this is my sketch of NGC 7331, the Deer Lick Group.
Drawn on 5.9.2013 at hohloh, kaltenbronn, black forest, germany.
Telescope used: 18″ at
135x for details in NGC 7331
400x for its companion galaxies.
Drawn with graphite on white paper (using tortillons, erasers)
scanned, inverted, and processed to remove “dust-stars” from scanning, darkened, and used the smudge tool
in PhotoFiltre to soften the Galaxies.
Cheerz,
Arndt
Hi, I send my sketch of Saturn. The Saturn is my favorite of the planets. I live in Psary in Poland. The sketch I did on the night of 30 April to 01 May. I had a very good view of the scale of 8/10. Saturn showed a lot of detail. You could see the famous Cassini gap. The atmosphere was very calm and did not cause degradation of the image of this interesting planet.
I was using 200x magnification. My telescope is a Newton 200/1200. I used a pencil to sketch 2B and white paper. Using GIMP I added a black background, which gives a realistic picture of Saturn with a telescope. GREETS 🙂
Date 01 May 2012
Seeing 8/10
Power 200x
Telescope: Newton Dobson 200/1200
Eypiece: PL vixen6mm
Media: White paper and pencil 2B
Object Name : M46
Object Type : Open Cluster in Puppis
Location : But-gogae Yangdong-myeon Yangpyeong-gun Gyeonggi-do South.KOREA
Date : 2013.2.15 Friday
Media : A4 paper, HB pencil
Equipment : 10′ dobsonian, XW 14mm
Observing conditions : Clear sky
I could identify Planetary nebular(NGC 2438)
Spent 1 and half hour to sketch, 23:00 ~ 00:30
2012 05 07, 1315 UT – 1500 UT.
NOAA 11476, 11474, 11475, 11471.
PCW Memorial Observatory, Texas – Erika Rix
www.pcwobservatory.com
Temp: 26.72°C, winds SE 4mph, partly cloudy to scattered.
Seeing: Wilson 4.5, Transparency: 4/6, 50x, Alt: 30.2, Az: 087.2.
Maxscope DS 60mm H-alpha, LXD75, Baader Planetarium Hyperion 8-24mm Mark III.
Sketches created at the eyepiece with black Strathmore Artagain paper, white Conte’ crayon and pencil, white Prang color pencil, Derwent charcoal pencil, black oil pencil.
I’ve really been enjoying the current set of active regions the past few days. It would be nice to sketch each individual active region as a close up view, but to do that would take several hours. As it was today, I struggled with a group of thick clouds for the first hour of my session. The sky was crystal clear when I set up and I chose to ignore the weather channel for my area stating that we could have thunderstorms at 8 a.m. Thankfully the storms never came…the clouds did. I was able to catch glimpses of the Sun in between the clouds and by 8:45 a.m., the sky was nearly unobstructed.
The first features added to the sketch after the prominences were plage from 1476 and 1471. Next came the sunspots themselves and filamentary structure. By 9:10 a.m. (1410 UT), very bright plage appeared just north of the sunspots in 1471. I haven’t been able to confirm yet if it was a solar flare, having expected possible flare activity in 1476 instead. But it lasted nearly an hour before it dulled somewhat. Near the end of my session, 1471’s plage brightened quite a bit to the eastern side of the major sunspot in that region as well as about five more degrees further east again.
1474 and 1475 paled in comparison to the two major active regions. There were nice filaments and thin plage that made them easy to find.
The large chain of filament reaching to the southern limb was still there, although thinner. Prominences scattered around the limb were insignificant.
• Object Name: C2012 F6 Lemmon
• Object Type: Comet
• Location: Pelayos de la Presa Spain
• Date: 14/07/2013
• Media: Graphite Pencil HB 2, torchon 1 and 130g drawing sheet
• inverted colors with GIMP 2.8
In late June the comet Lemmon began to be visible to observers in the northern hemisphere, before, in the southern hemisphere, showed a long tail that has characterized this comet. Now we show only a beautiful fluorescent C2 gas coma (turquoise in the photos).
I could see for the first time on June 6, but it was the morning of the 14th when I made a small log with notes and drawing and its distance from the sun was 2 AU and 1.9 AU is Earth Cassiopeia was in in a very rich star field, about 2 ° of M52 and had already risen about 65 degrees above the horizon.
With 80x magnification is shown as a cloud discussion with poorly defined borders, its brightness was low, with the center a little more dense and down very gently outward. The tone of his luster was smooth and looked lively, not dull like galaxies. Its size would be around 3 ‘or 4’ relative to the eyepiece. With no colorfulness lost tail, but it was very nice “so that we can have known” before we leave this year (I think it does not return for another 10 years).
Greetings to all visitors of this page. PVG. Alcorcon, Madrid 19/07/2013
Aloha!
I submit to you a sketch of Jones 1 or PK104-29.1. After an evening of excellent seeing & pursuing dim & stellar planetary objects, this was a treat to finish the evening with. The sketch shows my observation using OIII & NPB filters.
Jones 1 is a 12th to 15th magnitude (depending on source referenced) ~5’ planetary nebula located in Pegasus. It appears very dim but takes on much more detail with the use of OIII or NPB filters. It appears somewhat circular with the brightest rim to the NW, however another rim of brightness appears to the SE at times. With prolonged observation there is a shimmering & shifting to the brightness within the broken ring. A few dim stars appears embedded with averted vision. My profession is in the medical field and I was struck by a first impression of a 3 dimensional corpuscle!
Cindy (Thia) Krach
10/10/13 12:45 am
Jones 1 Planetary Nebula in Pegasus
12.5” Portaball
14mm 109x
OIII or NPB filters
graphite pencil on white paper inverted with Photoscape
This sketch is centered on the large walled plain crater Albategnius (135 km.). The well illuminated inner and outer rim margins appeared very rugged in contrast to the smooth floor interrupted by the off center mountain casting a large shadow. A sizable portion of the western wall was destroyed by crater Klein (45 km.). Klein also has a central peak which was overtaken by shadow during this observing session. Also visible in the sketch on the eastern side of Albategnius are craters Ritchey (25 km.), Hind (30 km.) and close by Halley (36 km.)
Sketching:
For this sketch I used: black Strathmore 400 Artagain paper, 8”x 12”, white and black Conte’pastel pencils, flat white paint, pink pearl eraser and blending stumps.
Telescope: 10 inch f/5.7 Dobsonian and 6mm eyepiece 241x
Date: 09-26-2013 00:30 – 02:00 UT
Temperature: 15°C (60°F)
Clear, calm
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Co longitude: 165.3°
Lunation: 20.55 days
Illumination: 60.7 %
Phase: 282.3°
Frank McCabe
Object : M42 (West of Trapezium)
Object Type: Emission Nebula
Location: Kenton, OK (Okie-Tex Star Party)
Date: 10 October 2013, 0300 MDT
Media: Black paper, conte crayon, pencil and pen
Note: I liked the way the 17mm eyepiece framed this portion of the nebula. It looked, to me, like a wreath.
Hi folks, I send you here my sketch made with Meade Lx200 ACF 12″ from Zelow Observatory in central Poland. Drawn at scope with graphite pencil and black pastel pencil on white paper, other info on the sketch:)
Thank You & Clear Skies!
