It was a next day with the clear sky above us. It was also a good time to look at Mercury. It is able to observe only if the seeing is excellent and the planet is at a suitable distance from Sun, so I was quite happy when I had seen its phase.
Object Name: Mercury
Object Type: planet
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 05.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, inverted in Photoshop CS2
Object: Moon Halo & Jupiter – 22 degree Halo around the moon
Object type: Moon & reflected light phenomenon, Jupiter
Location: Maui Hawaii
Date December 3,2011
Media: Charcoal pencil & sketch paper, Photoscape used to invert white to black
I walked outside tonight & beheld this lovely phenomenon I have observed many times here in Hawaii. I had always assumed it was a “Moonbow” but on further research realize it is a 22 degree Halo around the moon. Rough measurements were made using my fingers & fist for the degree of bow around the moon as well as distance of Jupiter from the halo to the North East. The inner halo is very distinct as a white rim that fades outward, and the inner area is darker than the outer. The ring around the moon is caused by the refraction of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. The shape of six sided hexagonal ice crystals results in the focusing of the light into a ring.
Hello to all the observers of the ASOD,
Venus Come tightened me arms since a moment on 29/02/2012, it was the opportunity to observe it and to take out pencils!!! it presented an attractive district, we would have said the miniature moon…
Object name: Venus
Object type: planet
Location: Bailly Romainvilliers ( France)
Date: 20120229 at 18:58 UT
SC 11″ G400 – OIII and UV filters
Media: pencil 0,5 HB – A lot of work of stump
Clear skies
Jc Biavati : www.astrophotgraphie.com
Conjunction of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus, sketched from a street in Antioch, California, U. S. A.
I’ve been observing these three over the last few days, watching as Jupiter and Venus grow closer in the skies, and always enjoying the waxing moon just after it’s new. Last night, I decided to sketch the view on my phone while I waited for my bus home. There was a slightly lit tree also in my view, so I went ahead and included it for interest. 🙂
The sky was fully dark, with some thin icy wisps of cloud. Seeing was decent, aside from street lights and traffic.
Location: Austria Stegersbach
Date: 27.12.2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper
Instrument: 8″ Newton
Weather: clear, Seeing: II,
Observer: Markus Vertesich
Hi!
I present to You quick, but interesting sketch. Today’s view of the three bright celestial objects.
Conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon.
Venus and Moon – close to each other.
Jupiter – bright object on the left at the top.
This sketch is based on observation with the naked eye. Made with pancil, then inverted and processed with GIMP2.
Greetings!
Aleksander Cieśla (wimmer)
Hello,
Here is my submission to the asod website.
It is a sketch of Mars, made february 11th of 2012, 1h00 UT.
Location was the The Netherlands, the small town Lochem.
Telescope used was a 20 cm Newton telescope, mounted on an equatorial platform.
The magnification was 250x. I observed with the aid of a binoviewer.
The drawing was created with a cirkel template of 10 cm. A black pastel pensil was used.
It was colorized with Photoshop Elements.
Greetings,
Tom Borger.
Jupiter By Krzysztof Świtała
Location: Gorzyce (Poland)
Date: 25/26-11-2011
Media: Blank paper, pencil
Instrument:Synta 8″
Super Ploss 10mm
Hey Artists!
Yes, this is a real old, restaurated sketch from the good old days, but it shows asteroid Vestas
movement across the beautiful Hyade star cluster over a observation time of 17 days.
I have org. 11 observations of Vestas positions, but 4 on this sketch. Info on the sketch.
I used pen and pencil on white paper (inverted).
Location: Trondheim, Norway.
I hope you like it!
Best wishes from : Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Dear Asod,
I send you here a montage of many sketches of Jupiter made by a group of amateur astronomers in Polaris Observatory, Hungary, Budapest.
We have monthly tutorials for anyone who is interested and we are going through all types of objects. When it came to the planets, unfortunately the weather was awful, so we decided to make a tutorial of sketching the Jupiter from a photo done a few days before. Here we got, everyone could practice observing and sketching. Even those joined who have never sketched before, and all of them suceeded, as you can see.
The sketches were made by: Szabolcs Kiss, Attila Pilisi, Time Kovesdi Farkasne, Peter Molnar, Ervin Katona, Viktor Farkas, Tamas Jakabfi.
Media used: graphite pencils and pastel pencil used on white paper
Date & time: 3rd December 2011 (from a photo made a few days before).
Place: Polaris Observatory, Hungary, Budapest
Clear Skies,
Judit Hannak
