Rotating Sketch of Mars 2010
Sketch and Details by Frédéric Burgeot
3D Mapping and Video by Pascal Chauvet
Hi,
Here is a “movie” of Mars in motion. I made a planisphere from a dozen of my sketches of the red planet, and my friend Pascal Chauvet has made a movie with my planisphere. The sketches have been made in France, from December to February, with a 16” Newtonian, 350X of magnification with a binoviewer.
Best regards,
Fred Burgeot.
Flat version of Mars Sketch
By Frédéric Burgeot
Mars – February 5, 2010
Sketch and Details by Aleksander Cieśla
Hello!
I would like to present my latest sketch of the planet Mars.
Object: Mars
Date: February 5th, 2010
Place: Poland, Wrocław
Equipment: Schmidt-Cassegrain 5″ with Antares SW 7,4mm
Filters: Moon & Skyglow, #12, #21, #80A, #25, #58 colour filters
Seeing: 3/5
Transparency: 1,5/5
Weather: Light fog, stable air.
Technique: Graphite pencil and GIMP2 tooling.
Oserver: Aleksander Cieśla (Wimmer)
Mars – February 18, 2010
Sketch and Details by Frank McCabe
Conditions were much improved over those of last Thursday for observing and sketching the planet Mars. The air column above me was mostly steady with temperatures just a degree above freezing.
Mars is now growing smaller in the eyepiece at 13.0″ of arc and 0.72 A.U. from us. 98% of the disk is illuminated and shining at visual magnitude -0.9. The central meridian of Mars was centered around 269° at the time of the sketch.
The north polar cap is clearly diminishing in size and visual brightness. In addition to the major features such as: Syrtis Major, Hellas, Mare Australe, Utopia/Casius, Mare Cimmerium and Mare Tyrrhenum; I was able to see clouds over the Elysium volcanic field and the albedo feature Nodus Alcyonis also appeared during moments of very steady seeing.
Before beginning this sketch I spent 30 minutes looking at Mars through red, green and light blue filters to assist with locating low contrast features.
Sketching:
The eyepiece sketch is the one on top in graphite pencil. The second color sketch was made indoors.
White sketching paper 8″ x 11″; HB graphite pencil, blending stumps for blending orange, brown and yellow Crayola pencil shavings.
Date 2/19/2010 – Time 3:00-3:35 UT
Telescope: 13.1 inch f/5.9 Dobsonian and 9mm eyepiece 218x
Temperature: 1°C (34°F)
clear, calm
Transparency 4/5
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Frank McCabe
Mars – January 30, 2010
Sketch and Details by Serge Vieillard
Just after the opposition of 2010, opportunity to draw the planet finally arrives. It is necessary to compromise with a cloud covered sky these last months and a lack of certain spirit. It is necessary to force ones self to use the rare opportunities, the cold being particularly lively this year. But I decided not to let this nice night of ice on January 30th get away. When I took out the T250 (10”) and installed it on the equatorial plate the show began. The planet rides high up in the sky but the atmosphere is a bit turbulent. I contented myself to use 300x with an orange filter from time to time. Others magnifications of 500x were welcome for this tiny planetary disc of a little more than 14″ of arc.
Translation by Frank McCabe
Mars – January 19, 2010
Sketch and Details by Christian Gros
Au T180 avec des grossissements de x270 à x308. Mars me paraissait plus jaune qu’orange ! Sur le côté j’ai pu voir la présence de nuages qui donnaient cette aspect beaucoup plus clair !
Christian Gros
Google Translation:
At T180 with magnifications of x270 to x308. Mars seemed more yellow orange! On the side I could see the presence of clouds that gave this aspect a lot clearer!
Christian Gros
Mars Map
Sketch and Details by Fred Corno
Date: blend of 34 observations from 2003, 2005 and 2007
Telescopes used: Vixen VMC 200L and Taka FS 128
The attached map represents the blend of 34 observations collected over 4 years. In order to correctly position features depicted in the various sketches made during the observations, reference coordinates grids were made and superimposed to the original drawing, then features were reported on a Lambert projection grid of the whole planet according to reference coordinates.
Original sketches were made marking on a 54 mm blank circular shape color density areas at the eyepiece, then refining with graphite pencil and colored pastels, after the observing session, and blending tones with an artist stump.
Present drawing was made with colored pastels.
Best regards
Fred
Mars – February 10, 2010
Sketch and Details by Andrew Watkinson-Trim
Pencil sketch at eyepiece with text added later. This is my first attempt at drawing Mars and also “first light” for my Skywatcher 127mm Mak’. The improvement on my old 102 SLT Celestron reflector was very marked. The seeing was reasonable, but the manual Alt/Az mount necessitated frequent repositioning of the object. This is an example of a “snatched” observing session showing that something worthwhile can be achieved in 10 minutes without dark-adaptation. I was delighted to be able to confirm the accuracy of this drawing because a friend was imaging Mars with his 8 inch Newtonian at the same time.
AWT
Mars – January 30, 2010
Sketch and Details by Oscar Ll. (Almach)
Mars with a CAT 5″ (2010-1-30) – Sketch by Oscar Ll. (Nickname: almach)
This is an example of how we can see these days Mars with a 5? telescope.
The real sketch is at bottom beside the magnification (250x, near the
limits of my telescope). It was made quickly with Photoshop. And only
for the beginners? this is more or less the size and details that you
can expect observing Mars with an aperture of 5?.
At the center, and very big, my sketch with a simple pencil.
And at the top a symbolic picture do it with my DBK21AU04.AS.
Object Type: Planet
Location: Barcelona – Spain
Date and Time: 2010-01-30, 22h 31m UT
Telescope: SC Celestron Nexstar 5i (5″)
Eyepiece: 5mm (250x)
White paper, HB2 graphite pencil, and scanned with Photoshop
Seeing: 4/5 (5 the best)
Transparency: Some clouds. Moderate light pollution.
Location Constellation: Cancer
Thank you and best regards.
Oscar
Mars – February 4, 2010
Sketch and Details by Christian Gros
Bonsoir,
Ci joint un dessin de la planète Mars réalisé à l’aide de ma lunette 120ED avec des grossissements allant de x252 à x360.
Le dessin a été fait aux crayons pastels.
Object Name : Mars
Object Type : Planet
Location : Besançon France
Date : 2010/04/02
Salutations
Christian Gros
Mars – February 2, 2010 – CM 93° – 100°
Sketch and Details by Michael Rosolina
I made this observational sketch of the Red Planet during a recent break in the wintry weather here. I was happy to catch Mars not long after its closest approach to Earth, while the planet still had an angular diameter of 14 arcseconds. That is as big at Mars will appear this apparition and still pretty small for visual observations.
Seeing the ice cap and signs of atmospheric clouds always reminds me of the similiarities between Mars and our own planet–perhaps why observers are always drawn to train their telescopes on that bright, ruddy dot in the sky.
I made this sketch at the eyepiece using 2B and HB pencils to render the dark albedo features and to make the schematic next to the full drawing. I then came inside and immediately added the color, using orange ochre, yellow, peach, and blue color pencils. After scanning, I added the text and notes.
Mars
Planet
Friars Hill, WV USA
February 2, 2010
Clear skies,
Michael Rosolina
