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Kemble’s Cascade & NGC 1502 – Camelopardalis

Kemble's Cascade and NGC 1502 — Kemble’s Cascade and NGC 1502

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

http://dibujodelcielonocturno.blogspot.com.es/

Messier 67

Object Name : M67
Object Type : Open Cluster in Cancer
Location : Suppi-ryung Kunnam-myeon Chulwon-gun Gang won-do South.KOREA)
Date : 2013.2.8 Friday
Media : A4 paper, HB pencil
Equipment : 10′ dobsonian, XW 20mm
Observing conditions : clear sky(Excpet south sky)
This my first DSO sketch in my life.
Spent 1hour to sketch, 3:00 ~ 3:30

Warrior in the Cradle

Hello friends:

Planetary conjunction at dawn: Mars in The Beehive (M44)

Graphite drawing on white paper (inverted Ps).
Binocular 12×80 (4,2º) at 4:30 UT (height of Mars 21º over horizon)

Mars is within the cluster and framed by the four stars of
Cancer (Asellus Borealis, Asellus Australis, 31 Cnc and 33 Cnc). Its colour was bright orange between blue and white stars.

Messier 20 and 21

Did some observing and sketching in the Sagitarius region on 8/24/2013. Very “crowded” area of the sky … so much to see and sketch. What caught my eye was the view of M20/M21, both easily visible in the FOV of my rich field scope. Hope I did it justice.

Mike

M20/M21 Nebula/Open Cluster
8/24/2013
Warren County NJ
Orion Astroview 100 Refractor
Sketched on a laptop computer

The Double Cluster

Object Name: NGC 884,NGC 869
Object Type: Double Cluster
Location: Iran, Jaddeh Saveh
Date: 8 aug 2013, 1:30 am
Media: Paint Software
Instrument: Sky watcher 10″
sketch by: Amirhossein Mousavi

Sketching don’t need any extraordinary instrument but accuracy!!!

This Double cluster is one of the most beautiful objects in north sky in the Perseus,
Every one can see this cluster without any instrument like a little halo above the Perseus,
you can get more information about this cluster here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_884
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_869

Luminous Butterfly

object Name – M6 “Butterfly cluster” sketch
Location – bohyun Mountain, Yeongcheon-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, S.KOREA
Media – pencil, charcoal , white Paper(croquis book)

XQ 10″ Dob / Explore 14mm 100′(2 inch)= “89x”

supplement image Link – twenty second afterward butterfly shape gif “M6 sketch”
(20 second please….gif butterfly shape….)

http://blogfiles.naver.net/20120504_126/durans24_1336122316958cpVye_GIF/1680-m6-kim-byong-su-gif.gif

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ

m6 butterfly shape sketch edit supplement gif image Link

http://blogfiles.naver.net/20120504_211/durans24_1336122398925o3qb3_GIF/nabi_2.gif

Messier 7

Object: Messier 7.
Type: Open star cluster.
Location: Bangalore Karnataka, India.
Date: 18-Aug-2013.
Media: White paper, Black Gel pen, inverted and processed in Photoshop CS2..
Seeing condition and transparency was very bad..
Instrument: Sky 130mm Newtonian, Sky watcher EQ-1, wide angle plossil 20mm.

Hi guys, sky in Bangalore has been very bad since few months due to monsoons. Sky was a bit clear towards south today, so quickly, I recorded this from mid of light and air pollution. So could not see many dimmer stars.

Messier 21

Returning home from an all day 50th birthday party at 10.30pm under a clear sky gave me an opportunity to get a little observation in that resulted in a little sketching, it had been a scorcher of a day hitting around 30 deg Feraheiht . I ended up viewing and sketching a couple of low targets down in Sagittarius which was well placed, if not well presented being very hazy and rather bright sky wise at SQM 19.5. My first sketch is of Messier 21 an open cluster that was missing from my Messier folder. I was running both the un cooled 120N+ Watec camera, and the new cooled one, the former on the 6” refractor and the later on the 20”. The 6” gave a larger fov so I sketched that view of this open cluster which lies very close to the Triffid nebula M20 as this image from friend David Davis shows

What I liked most about M21 is the lovely circular asterism of stars above the knot of brighter central gems, very pleasing.

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NGC 2244

The real difficulty with this sketch was not to see the object in the eyepiece, but mostly the cold temperature (below -20C with humidity and wind). Unfortunately I couldn’t see the nebula, probably mostly due to its large apparent dimension

Object Name: NGC 2244
Object Type: Open Cluster
Location: St-Elzéar, Québec
Date: December 30th, 2011
Media: white chalk on dark blue paper, scanned black and white
Instrument: Meade 16″ + 50mm Eyepiece
Weather: uncovered and cold !

Louise Racine

The Butterfly Cluster

Hello! This is a my sketch of one of the most beautiful cluster of the sky; the only but light Yellow/orange star make a fantastic contrast with the other bluish stars. I used my dobsonian telescope 10” f/5 and WA 12mm (104x).

Object name: Messier 6, Butterfly Cluster
Object type: Open Cluster
Location: Copertino (LE), Italy
Date: 3/7/2013
Media: India ink on white paper; inverted