Object Name M25
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Brasília-DF, Brazil
Date: September 20th, 2013 22:20 ZL
Media 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with GIMP
Instrument: 120mm f/4 refractor + 15mm (40x)
ASOD: ” Andromeda galaxy M31″
Object Name: Messier 31, M 32 and M110
Object Type: Galaxy
Date: 10/6/2013
Location: A Coruña, Galicia. Spain.
Media: pencil, white paper, color invert and enhance with Gimp.
Miyauchi binoculars Bj-100 (26x)
Seein: 3/5 (good)
This is my first attempt to draw the great Andromeda galaxy. I like to end my observations by pointing to M31 and think about the long journey from his light until it reaches us.
Hi all,
On October 12th good weather allowed me to see the rare triple shadow transit on Jupiter, and in addition seeing was excellent. Callisto’s shadow was big and somewhat fuzzy, near the south pole, while Io’s and Europa’s were tiny and sharp, at both sides of the SEB. It was very interesting to see all three shadows move across the planet for one hour! The sketch corresponds approximately to the middle of the event.
Sketch: 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with Photoshop CS3
Object Name: Triple shadow transit on Jupiter
Object Type: planet and moons
Location: Asturias, Spain
Date: October 12th, 2013 5:05 UT
Instrument: 120mm f/8.3 refractor + Ortho 6mm / Nagler T6 9mm + barlow 2x (167x / 222x)
Best regards,
Diego González
Greetings! This is my morning sketch: Solar Column and false suns. I get up early to work and saw this amazing view through the window.
Object Name Solar Column
Location Bialystok, Poland
Date 23.09.2013 0645-0700
Media digital tools
Hey ASOD- friends!
This is a sketch of the famous comet P/ Halley.
The comet showed some structures in the circular coma (jets), and
it was interesting to see an occultation of the nearby star to west by
the centralcondensation later!
In january 1986, comet Halley got a 2 deg. long tail and was a
fine object in binos and telescopes from Norway.
I found Halley early (8. oct.- 85), and followed it carefully all the way
on northern sky and from Tenerife in apr. – 86.
At this time I was leader of the comet- section in Norway.
The sketch was made with graphite (pencil) on white paper (inverted).
Location : Trondheim, Norway. Info on my sketch!
Best wishes from : Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Hi ASOD, sending this observation of this magnificent object. It was the first time I could see this object and had to make the sketch. is a large area with a number of very luminous stars that end up in the open cluster NGC 1502 with its easy double star Struve 485 detectable at low power. This object will be of my favorite deep sky objects, I hope you can watch it and enjoy it as much as I do.
regards.
Object name: Kemble’s Cascade & NGC 1502 Camelopardalis
Object type: Asterism & Open cluster
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 7 October 2013
Hour: 00:00 < 00:45
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Refractor Tele Vue 101 F / 5,4 Genesis SDF Eye piece ES 30mm
Magnification 18x True field 4,5°
Sky conditions: Stable sky, light wind. Nelm 6,2 Temperature 10,2°C Relative humidity 57% Borthle scale 3/9
Plato and Archimedes lunar craters
Eastbourne, UK
29th August 2013, 01:15 – 03:15 UT. Temperature 13C; seeing Antoniadi III
Meade LX90 8″ Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with 26mm super Plossl eyepiece, 77x
White and black pastel on Daler Rowney Canford black paper
I was lucky enough that a second consecutive clear night allowed me to study these craters again; this time they were on the terminator and the whole scene looked very dramatic, enhanced by the long deep shadows.
Best regards and clear skies,
Oli Froom
Hello friends of the dark side,
the mooncrater Hainzel was the object that I sketched yesterday evening. It was quite warm and nice weather to draw the picture.
The craters composes a complex formation with Hainzel A and C with identical size.
There are very steep slopes to the South.
High walls crushed to the North-East by Hainzel C and to the North by Hainzel A.
The floor is very tormented.
A clear sky and best Greetings
Uwe
Object Name Hainzel Crater
Object Type Lunar Crater
Location near Tauberbischofsheim Germany
Date 29. July. 2012 21.45 p.m till 22.30 p.m
Media graphite pencil and white Paper
As with some novae I have followed in the past I have been fascinated by the colours displayed as they develop. In particular one in Vulpecula (1960/70s) came to display an intense mauve/magenta hue (pink to some). If I recall right this was ascribed as it going through the “nebular phase”. More recently one in either Cygnus or Cassiopeia became the most intensely blue star I’ve ever seen!
While conceding the subjectivity of colour perception/judgement and so on (and differences with others’ monitors and such) a few details about these impressions……
Aug 15: Creamy Yellow. Aug 19: slightly more Yellow. Aug 26: Peach! Aug 30: Buttercup Yellow.
Early Sep. it started to display hues that I struggled to name but opted for Bronze/Coppery-Yellows.
Then it reddened markedly and even so could not quite equate it to the redness of carbon stars V Aql or of X Sge which was more near the nova’s brightness then.
The last (Oct 5) observation showed a more definite difference to X Sge: it was now fainter than X but looked slightly more toward red-violet.
David
[Our thanks to David for allowing us to repost this from the CloudyNights.com sketching forum. –Jeremy]
Object: NGC 2997 (GX, Ant)
Date: 06./07. 06. 2013.
UT.: 20h17m – 20h38m
Equipment: 400/1800 Skywatcher Dobsonian-reflector
Mag.: 225x
FOV: 13’
S = 7 / 10 T = 5 / 5
Observer: János Gábor Kernya (Hungary)
Location: Farm Isabis – Red house (Namibia)
