Using the brightest star of Mirfak in the constellation Perseus, it was easy to find the surrounding star field known as “Melotte 20” or “Collinder 39”, the Alpha Persei Cluster field is beautiful. Once fully in focus, the first thing I said was, “Wow.”
Object: Alpha Persei Cluster
Date: February 8th, 2014 – 9:30 – 10:30pm CT
Location: New Braunfels, Texas – back yard
Conditions: 42°F, clear with waxing gibbous moon
Instruments: 10×50 Wide-Angle Binoculars
Medium: Graphite on white sketch paper, inverted
Object name: NGC 3372 and NGC 3293
Object type: Emission nebula and open cluster
Location: Bogotá, Colombia
Date: January 04, 2014
Media: Digital sketch with adobe photoshop CS2, based on a graphite pencil sketch
Equipment: Celestron astromaster 130EQ, 25mm and 10mm eyepieces
Seeing conditions: moonless, transparency 2/3, Antoniadi III, Bortle 8.
Hello all,
At the end of 2013 I had the opportunity to look once again to a clear southern sky so I decided to go for it in the first days of January. On the early morning of January 4th I went to the whole nebula, this time, through my telescope view.
It was just an amazing view that I could only sketch approximately 80% of the stars I could resolved. I am just concern about the star Eta Carinae: all the information I got about it says that it is a blue variable giant. I´m not sure why is classified like that, if in true it looks like a red giant.
Object Name NGC 6231
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Brasília-DF, Brazil
Date: October 12th, 2013 5:05 UT
Media 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with GIMP
Instrument: 120mm f/5 refractor + 15mm (24x)
‘m sure that most of my fellow astronomy artists will agree with me when I say that the most challenging objects to draw are complex open clusters. There are just so many stars filling the FOV that it’s nearly impossible to draw them all and most of the time motivation’s already gone before you’ve actually started drawing. But this time I persevered and after more than two hours behind the eyepiece I think that I’ve more or less caught everything that I saw. Well, probably not though because after such a long observation time my head was literally spinning. But here it is:
– Object: M37
– Location: Carù, Italy (province of Reggio Emilia), elevation 770m
– Date: 06 Dec 2013 – 20:15 UTC (start of observation…)
– Media: Ordinary graphite pencil on white paper, followed by several hours of elaboration on the PC
– Equipment: 18″ f/4,45 home-made PeterDob (Galaxy optics), 40mm Siebert VP Echelon 2″ binoviewer and a couple of 24mm Explore Scientific 82° eyepieces (no OCA), resulting in a mag of 85x
– Conditions: fairly cold but the sky was wonderfully transparent. No seeing measured, limit visual mag +/- 6,3
Object Name : NGC 2451
Object Type: Open Cluster
Location: Miramar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date 23-11-2013
Media : graphite pencil 2H and 2B, scumble, white paper, edited with GIMP 2.
Intrumental: Binocular Braun 12×50
The night was very dark and quite. Luckily, there was no wind and i went outside with the determination to draw one of my favourites open clusters. I always spend a lot of time watching this beautiful object. I really enjoyed it!! Thank you so much!
Object Name M7
Object Type Open Cluster
Location Brasília-DF, Brazil
Date: October 11th, 2013 23:20 ZL
Media 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with GIMP
Instrument: 120mm f/4 refractor + 32mm (19x)
Object name: M 45, Pleiades Cluster
Object type: Open cluster
Location: Bangalore, India
Date: November 2nd 2013
Media: Black ink, graphite pencil, MS Paint.
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)
