‘m sure that most of my fellow astronomy artists will agree with me when I say that the most challenging objects to draw are complex open clusters. There are just so many stars filling the FOV that it’s nearly impossible to draw them all and most of the time motivation’s already gone before you’ve actually started drawing. But this time I persevered and after more than two hours behind the eyepiece I think that I’ve more or less caught everything that I saw. Well, probably not though because after such a long observation time my head was literally spinning. But here it is:
– Object: M37
– Location: Carù, Italy (province of Reggio Emilia), elevation 770m
– Date: 06 Dec 2013 – 20:15 UTC (start of observation…)
– Media: Ordinary graphite pencil on white paper, followed by several hours of elaboration on the PC
– Equipment: 18″ f/4,45 home-made PeterDob (Galaxy optics), 40mm Siebert VP Echelon 2″ binoviewer and a couple of 24mm Explore Scientific 82° eyepieces (no OCA), resulting in a mag of 85x
– Conditions: fairly cold but the sky was wonderfully transparent. No seeing measured, limit visual mag +/- 6,3
Peter
Peter,
I love it, you did justice to this cluster !!!
Dark and clear skies,
Juanchin
Bel lavoro Peter, veramente un’opera grandiosa. Quasi reale.
Grazie per la condivisione, è come se stavo guardando me stesso. Complimenti.
Peter, what you’ve created looks so real and so beautiful, I thought I was looking at a photograph. All who view this work benefit from the time and effort you put into it. Fantastico!
Thats so beautiful!!! 😀 I really like it! Thanks for sharing it
Many thanks to all of you for your kind words. They make it all worthwhile! 😀
Peter
All that hard work really paid off, I feel I am looking through an EP. Fantastic!
Cindy
Peter,
An extremely well executed sketch. Not putting a border on the margin really helps give the eyepiece direct view.
Frank 🙂
Impresionante!!!, maravilloso!!!, realmente hermoso y realista, felicitaciones