Galaxy – Page 28 – Astronomy Sketch of the Day

Near and Far

NGC 6946 (galaxy) and NGC 6939 (open cluster) in Cepheus
Sketch and Details by Andrew Phethean

Objects: NGC 6946 (galaxy) and NGC 6939 (open cluster) in Cepheus
Location: Kielder, UK
Date: 17/10/2009

Hello, and thanks for featuring my Copernicus sketch some weeks back – I was very proud!

I was recently attending a star party in Kielder, UK. I picked NGC 6946 from an observing guide and when it came into the field of view, I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two objects in the FOV. I thought they were both galaxies, because they both appeared smooth and nebulous. However, on checking the observing guide again it appears one of the objects was an open cluster, and sure enough I could make out a mottled texture and resolved some stars in one of the objects, while the other was entirely smooth. I was so delighted I decided to make a sketch. I may not see this charming pair for a long time as my home observing site is not in favour of such faint galaxies. NGC 6946 has a surface brightness of mag. 13!

The scope used was a Skywatcher 120mm ED refractor, and the sketch was made in an A5 WHSmith spiral bound sketch book with graphite pencils. Sketch was then photographed. The inverted image has been adjusted to resemble the view through the telescope, and is consequently quite dim.

Cheers
Andrew Phethean, Aberdeen

Necklace of Nebulae

The Pavo Group of Galaxies
Sketch and Details by Scott Mellish

From left to right: IC 4970/NGC 6872/ PGC 64439/ NGC 6876/ NGC 6877/
NGC 6880/ IC 4981
Galaxies
24/07/09
Ilford NSW Australia
56cm f5 Dobsonian
Field: 27′
Magnification: 218x
Sky quality meter reading: 21:64

This has always been a nice collection of galaxies to visit in Pavo.
Sometimes with a sketch it can be a bit confusing sorting out which
galaxies are which.
Hopefully I have got all their designations correct.

Scott Mellish

Caught In the Triangle

M33 (NGC 598), The Triangulum Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Ignisdei (Robert Twarogal)

Hi!

My first approach to the galaxy in the Triangle.
Yesterday evening there was a light frost at my garden, and the clear sky,

So I’ve eagerly started to sketch an object, to whom I’ve never started
before -M33
Unfortunately, I only endowed 152mm achromatic refractor with Petzval
corrector, which in my opinion showed the galaxy better than 8″ mirror!
I used to SWAN 25mm (wide frame) and 13mm SWA, UW (to detail.)
The Triangulum now (at 23.00 o’clock) hangs on an effective height….
The sketch took me about 45 minutes.
These 10-11 mag stars, and the holes between the spiral arms……Excuse
me again, alchemy of looking ..

Yours Robert!

Object Name: The Triangulum Galaxy M33
Object Type (Galaxy)
Location (Oborniki, Poland)

Date (13-10-2009)
Equipment; 6” Petzval, achromatic refractor + Heq5, WO SWAN 25mm, SWA UW
13mm

Author: Ignisdei (Robert Twarogal)

The Silver Coin in the Heavens

NGC 253, The Silver Coin Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Serge Viellard

An excellent high altitude location at Restefond in the French Alps was used by Serge on the second day of September, 2008 for creating the above sketch. He was using the 24 inch telescope of David Vernet to render this stunning capture of the mottled large galaxy NGC 253. He found the view of this galaxy in this instrument totally fascinating. He added, “The bright and dark areas of delimiting knots are obvious. But this exercise is delicate and called for much care and patience”…

Hat Dance

NGC 4594 (M104) The Sombrero Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Scott Mellish

NGC 4594 (M-104)
Galaxy
Ilford NSW Australia
30/05/08
56cm f5 dobsonian
Field: 15′
Magnification: 314x
Constellation: Virgo
Sky Quality meter reading: 21:36

I had not long got my home made 56cm dob up and running with a Servo-Cat
drive installed, and was still ironing out a few problems.
However it was tracking sufficiently enough that I popped in to visit
the Sombrero, hence the result was this sketch.

Scott Mellish

Ethereal Beauty of a Barred Spiral

M83, a large barred spiral Galaxy in Hydra
Sketch and Details by Laurent Ferrero

Object Name: M83
Object Type: galaxy
Location : Izaña, Tenerife, Canaries islands
Date : 20/04/2009 at 0h20

drawing realized with graphite pencil near the Teide caldeira, at the bottom of the Teide Observatory. For arrive to this detailed vision, I had need 1 hour of intensive work! The telescope I have used is a Maksutov Intes 6″ with 68x of magnification.

Best regards,

Laurent Ferrero
Marseille, France

Spinning Like a Pinwheel

M33 (NGC 598) The Pinwheel Galaxy
Sketch and Details by Milosz Guzowski

Hi,

today I want to show M 33 sketch from my 10″ newtonian scope.

Night was good (NELM ~ 6,5 mag) and galaxy shows a spiral structure.

– Object Name (M 33)

-Object Type (Galaxy)

-Location (Poland/Białuty)

-Date (16.08.2009)

-Scope (10 inch Newtonian+10 mm ploosl)

-Medium (Graphite/blending stump on white paper + GIMP processing)

Three for the Lion

The Leo Triplet: M65, M66 and NGC 3628
Sketch and Details by Diego Gonzalez

Hello,

This is my first submission to ASOD although I am a long time reader of the website. Here is an sketch and small report of the Leo triplet I made last spring from my home in cloudy northern Spain.

The Leo Triplet is easy to find south of bright star Theta Leonis. M 65 and M 66 are seen without much difficulty south of a 7th magnitude star, but under my sky conditions NGC 3628 requires more attention.

M 66, the easternmost of the Messier galaxies, lies next to a group of four stars ranging from 10th to 11th magnitude. The galaxy has a bright nucleus and an elongated halo running NNW-SSE, small and well visible, that is gradually lost in the dark sky. The other Messier galaxy, M 65, has an orientation and size very similar to its companion, but its look in the eyepiece is different. I canâ€™t see a prominent nucleus and the brightness seems rather uniform but increasing slightly towards the center.

NGC 3628 is a bit more difficult than its companions, and I need 45x to make it visible, although the best view comes at 77x (Hyperion 13mm eyepiece). The galaxy is a faint spindle, very elongated in E-W direction. It is noticeably bigger than the Messier galaxies and creates a beautiful contrast with them.

Using my Panoptic 22mm eyepiece, I can see all three galaxies in the same field of view, making it a wonderful view. The three galaxies are Hubble type Sb, but each one has its own features that make it different from the others at the eyepiece. The average distance to the Leo Triplet is about 30 million light-years.

Sketch: 2HB graphite pencil on white paper, scanned and processed with Photoshop Elements 2.0
Object Name: The Leo Triplet: M 65, M66 and NGC 3628
Object Type: Galaxy group
Location: Asturias, Spain
Date: 22th March, 2009
Instrument: 120mm f/8,3 refractor + Panoptic 22m eyepiece (45x)

Regards
Diego Gonzalez

Road Leading to the Cottage Cepheus

Galaxy NGC 6946 and Open Cluster NGC 6939
Sketch and Details by Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

Hy!
There are charming couple of lovers, at the road leading to the cottage Cepheus .
Cluster and galaxy … NGC 6946 +6939

Best regards
Robert

Object Name : NGC 6946 +6939

Object Type: Open cluster and Galaxy
Location: Poland/ eastern Poland ,
Date: 20.08.2009 y, and 30.08.2009 y,
Equipment: Meade Light Bridge 12”, and SWAN 25mm. and UWA SW 13mm

Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

Great Andromeda Garden

The Great Andromeda Galaxy and satellite galaxy
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla

Hello!
This is sketch of the Great Galaxy of Andromeda, Messier 31 from the Tapadla Defile – one of the main meeting place of observers from Wroclaw and parts.

Object: Messier 31 – Great Galaxy of Andromeda (with Messier 32).
Scope: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with Antares W70 25mm.
Date: August 20th 2009.
Place: Tapadla Defile (Tąpadła). Bottom Silesia. Poland
Weather: Excellent. Seeing 4,5/5. Transparency 5/5.
Technique: Graphite pencil.
Tooling: GIMP2.