Hey!
I follow up with my binocular observation of comet Hyakutake as it passed the star Arcturus.
The coma was big and greenish at this time. The comet moved very fast. Info on sketch.
I used crayons on black paper.
Observation: Trondheim, Norway.
From: Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Hey Artists!
I send you my sketch of the galaxy M. 106 in Canes Venatici.
This is an easy and unusual object with a bright northern arm and a faint and diffuse
one to south.
To me, the nucleus looked bright with two parts.This was a really interesting object.
I used crayons (watercolour) on black paper. More info on my sketch.
The observation was made outside Trondheim, Norway.
Thanks for all nice comments on my sketches!
Clear sky to all !! Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Hi artists!
I send you a double “Albireo, the beautiful”.
This pair of stars, in the head of the Swan, I have observed many, many times with my telescope, but
every time I had been amazed of their very beautiful contrast in colours.
I have never seen them split with naked eyes, but with 10x 50 I have seen both.
I think Albireo is the finest double seen from Norway. More info on my sketch!
The observation was made outside Trondheim city, Norway.
Best regards, Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Webmaster’s note: Per-Jonny, I’m terribly sorry this beautiful sketch got overlooked in the cue. I’ll be looking for your other sketch that was overlooked as well. Your sketches are always very well done. For anyone who may have sent sketches that were never posted, just email Rich Handy at webmaster@asod.info and Jeremy Perez at
asod@perezmedia.net. Let us know your sketch was overlooked and indicate the subject and date emailed and I’ll do my best to retrieve it. Again my sincere apologies.
Rich Handy ASOD webmaster.
Hey!
I send you the central part of M. 42, “The great gas nebula in Orion”.
The greenish filaments of gas that surrounds the four stars. Theta Orionis is the most beautiful object you can see in the sky in both small and big telescopes! The central part of the nebula is so bright that it is easily seen with naked eyes in the middle of Orion’s sword.
I made this sketch with crayons (watercolours) on black paper.
The observation from outside Trondheim city, Norway.
Best wishes and dark sky to all artists!! MERRY CHRISTMAS !!
From Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Hey!
I send you N.G.C. 6826 “The blinking planetary”.
I could easely see the blinking from direct and inverted vision. The central star was bright, but I could
not see any inner ring in the nebula as some artists reports. The central area near the star appears
dark to me, but the nebula itself looks bright and easy. I am sorry, my drawings gets older and older, and so am I, but I have practiced astronomy for nearly 50 years , so…… But I think the D.S.- objects looks the same today!
Thank you very much for fine comments on my earlier sketches!
Clear sky to you all!!
from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
I use to make sketches of old, historic and bright comets from
drawings made with pencil and coalcrayons for
a long time ago. I send you here one example.
Per Johnny Bremseth
Comet 8P/Tuttle
By Per-Jonny Bremseth
Hey!
I send you comet 8P/ Tuttle “mother of the Ursids”. The comet was not so bright, but has a famous history (info on my sketch). I could see a brighter, soft glow in the central part , but the outer part was diffuse and did not see a limit of the outer coma. This sketch was made with crayons on black paper only.
The observation location : near Trondheim city, Norway.
Thank you very much for posting my sketches!!
From Per-Jonny Bremseth.
Jupiter with Missing Cloud Belt – 1990
Per-Jonny Bremseth
Hello!
I send you my sketch from 1990 of the planet Jupiter with missing south equatorial belt. Now, the last week the SEB have again disappeared, and great disturbances have made the southern part of the planet light.
My sketch shows a chaotic northern equatorial belt (NEB), with a great, white spot along it, and a light southern half!
I used crayons on black paper. The observation was made outside Trondheim city, Norway.
Jupiter is too low for me this time, so good luck to others!!
Best wishes from Per-Jonny Bremseth.
NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory Launch
Sketch and Details by Stephen Ramsden
I know that this is a bit off the wall, but I got so inspired by the SDO going up safely that I decided to sketch it. Hope you like it.
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NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory
Atlas V rocket
Cape Kennedy Space Center, FL USA
Feb 11th, 2010
This is colored Conte oil crayons, #2 pencils and a napkin for smudging on black Artagain recycled sketch paper. This sketch was my impression of several frames from the NASA launch video.
I was very thrilled when the SDO launched successfully. I cannot wait until data starts streaming into Goddard Space Flight Center from this, the first mission in NASA’s living with a star program. Great timing too as we have seen such a dramatic uptick in Solar activity the last few weeks.
Stephen W. Ramsden
Atlanta, GA
www.solarastrophotography.com
Mars – December 16, 2009, 9:45 – 10:15 UT
Sketch and Details by Frank McCabe
Mars December 16, 2009
It was a cold, clear, moonless, early morning with Mars high in the southern sky. The mirror of the telescope took some time to cool down as the temperature continued to drop on this night and early morning. Mars was very bright at visual magnitude -0.4, 93% illuminated and 77.5 million miles from us.
My fingers were numb in just 10 minutes of sketching so I was inside at 10 minute intervals to thaw them.
I decided to make a graphite field sketch and when I finished I converted it to a color pencil sketch indoors. After completing the color sketch I returned to the scope with the sketch to check for accuracy and then concluded.
I did not spend any time trying filters and the seeing was about average (Antoniadi III). Mars is inverted in the sketch with the north polar cap down and the preceding side to the left.
Don’t miss a chance to have a look.
Sketching:
White sketching paper 8″ x 11″; HB graphite pencil, soft charcoal pencil for sky background, blending stump for blending orange and yellow Crayola pencil shavings. Brightness decreased at scanning by -2 using scanner
Date 12/16/2009 – Time 9:45-10:15 UT
Telescope: 13.1 inch f/6 Dobsonian and 9mm eyepiece 222x
Temperature: -19°C (-2°F)
clear, calm
Transparency 4/5
Seeing: Antoniadi III
Frank McCabe
