Jupiter, Io, Europa , Ganymede, and Callisto pencil sketch by Sam Ferrie age 9
St Cronans Stargazers Bray Co Wicklow Ireland / St Cronans National School Bray.
Using a 200 mm dob , with an 8mm Hyperion Modular eyepiece , FL 1,200mm Seeing 2
December 5th 20:06 2011
Temp 1 degree C
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Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Chair IFAS
National Coordinator for Astronomers Without Borders
National Rep The European Association for Astronomy Education
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within
the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of
the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets
in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant
along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. This is my second sketch of
Jupiter and in my opinion version 2 is much better ;). I draw this
picture using graphite pencil on white sheet of paper but I inverted
it Gimp, added colors, halo etc. Because of that modifications I think
this sketch can be determinate as digital picture too. In the bottom
left corner of sketch I added real astrophoto of Jupiter to compare it
with my sketch ,visual observation.
Object: Name Jupiter
Object Type: Planet
Location: Starogard Gdański, Poland
Date: 12.11.2011
Time:11:00 PM
Media: graphite pencil, digital tools (GIMP)
Equipment: SW 150/750 ,super 10mm with barlow 3x
Weather moon light and clear sky.
This is the first sketch I am submitting to ASOD although I do many sketches of Messier objects and double stars and plan to submit more later. This sketch, entitled “Comet Garradd,” was conducted from the summit of Haleakala on Maui at 10,000 Ft. elevation, using my Celestron C925 with a Swan 40 eyepiece at 58X. The location is in Science City at the Institute for Astronomy at the Haleakala Amateur Astronomers Club which I am a member. It was executed September 19, 2011, with a #2 HB pencil on a standard 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper log.
Notes: Star hopped NNW from SAO 103839 past double a star to the object. Close to the south are two pairs of stars. Close to the north are two pairs of stars. The object seems mostly round with a strong concentration and what seems like a pinpoint brightness in the center. It has a tail streaming off to the south.
Object Name : Mars and M44
Object Type : Planet, Open Cluster
Location : Skrzyszow, Silesia, Poland
Date : 4.20am 2011-10-02
Media : graphite pencil, color added in GIMP
Dobson 1200/200 + SWA 32mm + SWA 15mm
It’s hard to say, that the condition was nice. The seeing was perfect but only in zenith. I saw perfect Jupiter. One of the best I’ve ever seen!
Unfortunate, near the horizon, there was fog.
In my location, the Mars was only on altitude 25 degree, so I have to write: seeing was not good.
Please, forgive me, that I had to colorized sketch using digital magic. One more thing: there is planet any surface on sketch. It is only the moisture…
Location: Płaza, Poland
Date: 04.11.2011
Media: graphite pencil, white paper
This is sketch of the Jupiter and one of his moons – Europa, which had a beautiful transit in the front of the Jupiter. I used an 8″ reflector with a 240x power. Seeing wasn’t so good as a few days ago, but it was livable and there wasn’t even one cloud on the sky. The Europa and her shadow was clearly visible, so I decided to made this sketch.
Here is a composite sketch of Jupiter, showing nearly a complete rotation of the planet.
It is made in a session lasting only a single night, last november 5th.
Time: 18h30, 19h35, 20h40, 21h40, 22h40, 23h45, 0h35, 1h30 en 2h20 UT.
It shows Jupiter between length of CM2 311° and 206°.
The telescope used was a 14” Dobson with Apodizing mask.
Mag. ranged from 200x tot 360x.
26/08/2011 _ 23.30 – 23.50 CEST
Hlucin _ Czech rep.
Pencil on white paper and inverted in Photoshop
Here is the sketch of comet Garradd and globular cluster M71. Conditions were very fine, clear sky and only some light pollution. I made the sketch yesterday night. [note: sketch was submitted August 26, 2011.]
Clear sky
