Location: Bayarian Alps, Germany
Date: 23. March 2012, midnight
Media: Pencil on Paper, scanned
Observer: Christian Rausch
Telescope: 12inch/F5 Dobson (Hofheim Instruments)
Conditions:
– seeing: II (good)
– 375x and 500x (Nagler Zoom 3-6mm)
Since the transparency in this night was poor I’d to cancel all my faint objects from my list.
But the seeing was good an therefore I decided to have a try with Mars. Attached the result.
Best Regards
Christian
Mars – March 2012
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Overview of my Mars sketches in March 2012.
During March large areas of cloud and haze where visible.
Especially till the end of the month the region of Hellas Planitia
appeared very brigth with overlayed clouds.
Sketching:
Pencil on white paper, black background added in PS
Telescope: 9.25 inch f/10 SC, 300x-335x
Lambert Spix
www.sky-scout.de
Object: Mars
Equipment: SCT 5″
Eyepieces: TS Expanse 8mm / NED 8mm / WA 8mm
Filters: Moon & Skyglow, #21 Orange
Date: March 23rd, 2012
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Conditions: Clear skies, light wind.
Seeing & clarity: Unstable. Sometimes bad, sometimes very good.
Greetings!
Aleksander (Wimmer)
http://astro-art.com.pl
I was able to enjoy a rare break in my schedule to observe the planet Mars just past opposition. The night sky was affected by intermittent clouds that eventually obscured the view, but allowed me a brief look at all the same (the limited view did not allow me to use a blue filter). What initially struck me was the amount of cloud activity noted over the Martian disk (especially over the preceding (evening) and following (morning) limbs. The North Polar Cap (NPC) was small but brilliant (10/10) with some dusky (4/10) streaks noted within it. I welcome any comments on my observation.
Date: March 14, 2012
Time (U.T.): 03:30
CM: 209.5ºW
Ls: 83.0º, De 21.6º, Ds 24.6º
Phase 99%, -1.1m, 13.7”
Instrument: 9-inch (23-cm) F/13.5 Maksutov-Cassegrain
Magnification: 310x
Filters: None (IL)
Seeing (1-10): 5-6 (moments of 7), T: 4/6
The North Polar Cap (NPC) was small and brilliant (10/10) with thin, dusky (4/10) streaks noted with it (especially over the preceding half). The NPC was surrounded by a dark (3/10) collar. The NPC remnant Olympia (~210ºW) was noted south of the NPC as a thin, very bright (8/10) streak. The preceding (evening) limb was very to extremely bright (8-9/10) and an orographic cloud (associated with Olympus Mons?) was noted attached to it. The region east (preceding) Elysium (Amazonis/Arcadia/Azania/Phlegra) appeared dusky (4/10) and mottled (fine detail noted when the seeing steadied). A very bright (8/10) cloud was noted noted over Elysium (7/10), possibly Albor, that appeared to extend towards the north over Cebrenia and into Panchaia. Mare Cimmerium appeared dark to dusky (3-4/10) with fine mottling noted within it, especially when the seeing steadied. The fine, dusky (4/10) parallel streak north of Mare Cimmerium, Valhalla, was noted as well. Clouds were noted over Aetheria towards the following (morning) limb (very bright to extremely bright (8-9/10).
A digital image produced in Pixelmator.
Carlos E. Hernandez
Hi,
In attachment you can find sketch of extraordinary event on the sky – “conjuction” of Mars and two galaxies M95 & M96
Short description:
Object Name: Mars, Messier 95, Messier 96
Object Type: planet, two spiral galaxies
Location: Budy Dłutowskie – small village in central Poland
Date: 17.03.2012
Media: graphite pencil, white paper, color invert
Telescope: Columbus 320UL (320/1384 Newtonian) + Orion Q70 26mm
Seeing: 4/5 (poor)
Transparency: 4/5 (poor)
NELM: 5,2 mag
Two days ago I had opportiunity to observe very rare event on the sky – Mars “met” two spiral galaxies M95 & M96. Galaxies were really hard to observe because Mars was really really bright. I didn’t notice any details inside galaxies but the whole view in large FOV was really impressive.
Clear Sky
Łukasz
Welcome.
Sketch of 04/04/2012 by Vixen refractor 80/1200 mm and 10 mm eyepiece with a set of sky watcher, seeing good moments, details: the polar caps are clear detail, darkening around them too, it was hard narrowing and identifying the continent, but could advice :). Enlarge small because a small, but gave the (120x)
Clear Skies !
Hello,
here is my best Mars in this Season. Two days ago, the air was calm between 22.30 und 23.30 very well. So I took my drawing board and held the pretty details of the red planet. The surface shows us the white polar cap, Olympus Mons, the Tharsis-Region with it´s Mountains.
Object: Name Mars
Object Type: Planet
Location: near Tauberbischofsheim Germany
Date: 09.03.2012 23.00 p. m.
Media: graphite pencil and white Paper
Best greetings
Uwe
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.
2011 12 26 – Mars
www.pcwobservatory.com
Erika Rix, Ohio, USA
We’ve been fortunate to have a few clear nights for observing lately. Mars season is upon us and it feels great to have a chance to try out my new filter set: Mars, 82A blue and 21 orange.
This sketch is a composite of all three filters. I started off with the Mars filter for an overall view. Syrtis Major was the first area I noticed. Next were the north polar cap and the darkened area around it. Faint structure started to appear but became even more apparent when I switched to the orange filter. Lastly was the blue filter that made the NPC and Hellas pop out dramatically. The following limb was brightened. Seeing was above average with slightly poor transparency. The session had to end because of clouds, but I felt the session was pretty much completed by that time anyway.
The sketch was created using charcoal on card stock, charcoal pencils, willow charcoal, vinyl eraser pencil and kneaded rubber eraser.
Hello astro-artists
I send you a Mars and Regulus conjunction sketch made this morning, November 13th 2011 at 4h50 UT.
The technique used is watercolour for the foreground and inverted graphite pencil for the sky.
To merge my sketches I use the free paint.net software.
The chimneys are typical for my Provencal region. Observation made from Rocbaron in France.
Clear sky to you all
Michel Deconinck
