I was watching around Cygnus and ran into M29. I found the surroundings were as spectacular as the cluster, so I opened the field and started to draw keeping the cluster to the right.
Object Name: M29 – The cooling Tower NGC6913
Object Type: Open Cluster
Constellation: Cygnus A.: 20h 23m 56s; Dec: +38° 31.4′
Location: Pelayos de la Presa – Madrid – Spain.
Date: October 18th 2014 22:30 h.(CET)
Temperature: 15 ºC
Seeing: 3/5
Telescope: Celestron nexstar 5′ S/C.
Eyepiece: 25 mm celestron
Magnification: 50x
Media: Graphite pencil on white paper. Scanned and then inverted and processed image with GIMP
Clear skies!!
Santiago,
This is a nice target for public telescope viewing nights in summer and fall.
Everyone enjoys it.
Fine sketching.
Frank 🙂
Santiago,
Its always refreshing to see a sketch a little off the target. The surrounding region of M29 is wonderful in your sketch!
Cindy