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Iota Cassiopeiae

Hey ASOD!

This time I send you the beautiful trio iota Cassiopeiae.
The stars shows fine colors! More info on my sketch.
I used pencils on white paper, inverted and colored in “Paint”.
Loc.: Trondheim, Norway.

Best wishes and clear sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.

Double Antares

Object tipe: Double Star
Location: Montbordo (Barcelona).
Date: 21/6/14
Media: Newton 14″, 400x magnification, Photoshop Cs6.

Double star Antares and his partner WDS 16294-2626, mags +1 and +5.5 separate 2.4 “and AP. 274 º today.

It is very difficult to split Cs6 displayed in Photoshop (not pictured) double star.

Sorry for google translator 😉 , thanks……

STF 1954

Object name: STF 1954
Object type: Double Star
Location: Marina di Cerveteri (IT) – 12 02 44.3E, 41 58 52.9N
Date: 2014-06-21
Media: graphite pencil & pastel
Equipment: 95mm VMC

—
Gianluca Paone
Astronomia Sotto il Lampione – Forum

SN 2014J in M82

Galaxy M 82 with Supernova SN2014J on February 4, 2014

Hello,

Two and a half hours of clear sky at 04.Februar 2014 were sufficient to hold the SN in M82 and take a long walk on the winter night sky.

After a tough cloud cover and then the mist had dissolved about 21:00 clock, I could start the observation with the TMB 115/805 Apo.

The supernova was a really great thing! Very bright and striking beamed the SN in the “cigar”. After a brief enjoyment, I started with the sketch!
Unfortunately, the review was only mediocre, so blurred finer structures of the galaxy almost. Nice to see was the interruption in M 82 and south two light specks.

CS Uwe

Object: Galaxy M82
Object Name: SN 2014J
Telescope: 115/805 TMB
Eyepiece: 6mm Baader Genuine Ortho
Magnification: about 110x
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany

Hubble’s Variable Nebula

Hey ASOD!

I send this time a most interesting nebula for amateur-astronomers,
the light- variable Hubbles nebula! Info on my sketch.
The observation was made from Trondheim, Norway.
I used color-crayons on black paper.

Have a good time and dark sky from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
N.B. : In Norway it is summer, and the sky is light, so nothing to see of stars!

PanSTARRS C/2012 K1 and STF1758

Object Name (PanSTARRS C/2012 K1 and STF1758)
Object Type (Comet and Double Star)
Location (OAB – Observatoire Astronomique de Bauduen)
Date (May 1st, 2014)
Media (graphite pencil, watercolor, white 300gr paper)

Ahhh, this night I really enjoyed myself! Imagine a unlikely place of beauty, the St. Croix lake, with the emerald waters of the “gorges du Verdon” and just above a sky of dream.
Between the two: the Olivier Planchon Observatory located near the nice small village of Bauduen. In the observatory a heavy reflector holding a main mirror of 24″ (620mm) f/d 3.3, a series of brand new Ethos eyepieces and voila.
My pencils show the target of the moment: another comet PanSTARRS, still quite small, but just near the comet a very pretty double star.
My friend “Apilaure” a specialist of double stars, talks about this double:
– It is also called STF1758, a Struve of 1830. The separation was 3.4” in 2010. It is more than likely a physical double because Hipparcos gives the same parallax for A and B, so a distance of 279 light year. The couple turns slowly, 15° in almost 2 centuries.

This is undoubtedly the superb material and this nice double, that I was deprived of the sight of the ion tail, I will return in this observatory, that’s more than sure!

I wish all the best to the ASOD community !

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Michel Deconinck