Category: Galaxy

Hope and Elegance in Lynx

NGC 2683
NGC 2683

Hi! to the community, sending a sketch of the last observation turned nice. This galaxy can be found in the constellation Lynx near Alpha. It is a very bright galaxy by its surface brightness 12.9 resulted in my wonderful scope for the great amount of detail offered, was not at its highest point in the sky but it was no problem. It seems that at the bottom below the elongated core could see a faint dark area running along the core from side to side, someone detect this subtle detail?

Soon ends the year and my wish for you, follow every day sharing our hobby with others like the first day without losing hope in these difficult times, having clear and transparent skies to continue sketching.

Greetings.

Roberto.

Object name: NGC 2683
Object type: Galaxy
Location: Bonilla Cuenca ( spain )
Date: 1 December 2013
Hour: 1:00 < 1:30
Media: graphite pencil, processed and inverted gimp 2.8
Optical equipment: Dobsonian telescope Meade Lightbridge 10'' F/5 Eye piece Ethos 8mm
Magnification 159x True field 0,6°

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

Galaxy NGC 1023

NGC 1023
NGC 1023

Object Name: NGC 1023
Location: RA: 02h 40m 24.0s, Dec: +39 ° 03 ’48 ”
Magnitude 10
Surface brightness 12.9
Dimensions: 8.7’ x 3.0’
Constellation: Perseus
Type: Galaxy (SBO) .
Observing Location: Bonilla. Cuenca. SPAIN
Date: November 2, 2013.
Time: 23:45 T.U.
Material used: graphite pencil on white paper. Inverted image and processed with Photoshop.
Telescope: Celestron S/C 8″ Mount Cgt-5
Eyepiece: Nagler 20 mm 82°; Magnification: 100x.
Conditions: NEML: 6.13 (Zone 6 Peg.) Temp. 5º C. Humidity 73%

More information:
http://astrodibujo.blogspot.com.es/

NGC 266

NGC 266
NGC 266

Good afternoon fellow Webbies 🙂

I have attached a sketch of delightful barred spiral NGC 266 in Pisces that I made on Saturday night using my 20″ F3.7 reflector. This is the first sketch with the Watec video camera placed at prime focus, a modification designed and engineered by the redoubtable Mr Es Reid.

As helped me set up and collimate the rig and then stayed on for this stunning observation. The tiny companion galaxy that can be seen at 2 O’clock is mag 16.4 PGC 212604.

I hope you like this gem and feel encouraged to take a look yourselves 😉

Clear skies to us all, Dale

Do you want to know more about my interest in astronomy? If so take a look at my Website: http://www.chippingdaleobservatory.com/

Keep up to date with observations from Chippingdale Observatory by reading the Blog http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/

The Vortex

Messier 51
Messier 51

May 5, 2013 I think I had a NELM alamost 6 mag (at my home in small Twon) .. marvelous night! Amazing clarity – good transparency and windless sky, … did an atmosphere very stable,

I’ve seen the spiral arms inside the hallo surrounded the white core of Wirlpool Galaxy.
The hallo was built of black and white swirls, they where quite visible .. definitely I’ve seen a bridge between the M51 and NGC 5195 and a few stars in the background!
I recommend You to observe this object in all apertures, it is always… beautiful!
Yours Robert

Object Name: M51
Object Type (Galaxy)
Location (Oborniki, suburbia, Poland)
Date (05-may-2013)
Equipment: Newtonian telescope 409/1800 (Capella 41), ES 14mm eyepiece
Object: – Artist: Robert Twarogal (Ignisdei)

A Trio in Triangulum

NGC 672, IC 1727 and PGC 1803573
NGC 672, IC 1727 and PGC 1803573

Good afternoon,

A clear evening yesterday albeit with quite a glow from a 77% Moon allowed me to go for a lovely trio in Triangulum, NGC 672, IC 1727 and PGC 1803573 far exceeded my expectations in terms of beauty and structural detail the 20″ mirror a Watec video camera yielded.

The observation and sketch was a follow up on an observation Adrian Orr and I shared with my at Kelling Heath using his 18″, on that occasion we had only observed the NGC and IC members, the far more distant mag 16.3 PGC edge on galaxy with central bulge only became apparent to me after I researched the brighter duo. I stated to Adrian only yesterday that it was my desire to catch this third galaxy but at that time it was by no means a foregone conclusion.

I hope that you find my sketch of interest? It is my intention to get back onto the ARP trail with the next clear sky.

Kind regards, Dale

Do you want to know more about my interest in astronomy? If so take a look at my Website: http://www.chippingdaleobservatory.com/

Keep up to date with observations from Chippingdale Observatory by reading the Blog http://chippingdaleobservatory.com/blog/

NGC 7331 and Companions

NGC 7331
NGC 7331 and Deer Lick Group

Hello,

this is my sketch of NGC 7331, the Deer Lick Group.

Drawn on 5.9.2013 at hohloh, kaltenbronn, black forest, germany.
Telescope used: 18″ at

135x for details in NGC 7331
400x for its companion galaxies.

Drawn with graphite on white paper (using tortillons, erasers)
scanned, inverted, and processed to remove “dust-stars” from scanning, darkened, and used the smudge tool
in PhotoFiltre to soften the Galaxies.

Cheerz,
Arndt

Ancient Light from Andromeda

Messier 31
Messier 31

ASOD: ” Andromeda galaxy M31″

Object Name: Messier 31, M 32 and M110

Object Type: Galaxy

Date: 10/6/2013

Location: A Coruña, Galicia. Spain.

Media: pencil, white paper, color invert and enhance with Gimp.

Miyauchi binoculars Bj-100 (26x)

Seein: 3/5 (good)

This is my first attempt to draw the great Andromeda galaxy. I like to end my observations by pointing to M31 and think about the long journey from his light until it reaches us.